Re: [LAU] [OT] Debian reinstall...?

On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 12:49:14PM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote:
> Hello folkis!
> Sorry for this, but is there a way to do something like:
> aptitude reinstall all
> and the system reinstalls every package, that its database tells it, is on
> the computer.
> I just shredded my system a bit yesterday, removed part of /usr/lib. I fixed
> it via the dirty road, but now I'd like to clean up.
> So I'd like the system to reinstall all packages, currectly there.
> thanks in advance for any good idea on this!

This might do it for you, Julien. I imagine it will be quite
time consuming...

dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print $1}' | xargs apt-get --yes --reinstall install

> Warm regards
> Julien

-- 
Joel Roth
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