Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-23 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:16, Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that flags all packages as reinst-required or something? I think 'dpkg --get-selections;' 'dpkg

Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:04, Nicos Gollan wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 20:16, Greg Madden wrote: On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: Is there an easy way to reinstall all packages? Perhaps a tool that flags all packages as reinst-required or something? I

Re: Brute force reinstall (SOLVED)

2003-01-23 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 23 January 2003 14:50, Dale Hair wrote: If you wish to reinstall all installed packages use aptitude. Go to the line --- Installed Packages and press L. This will mark every installed package to be reinstalled. Yep, thanks a lot. Hope I'll never need it (again) :-P -- Got

Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 08:27 am, Nicos Gollan wrote: Hi all... I recently ran into some, uhm, minor hard disk problems that sent my /usr/share to kingdom come, along with /home, but that's another story. Failing to find a simple way to reinstall packages with data in /usr/share or