On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 04:31:24PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 04:08:24PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: > > > You can do something like > > apt-get install --reinstall $(dpgk --get-selections|cut -f1) > > > > You may have to grep out some packages that aren't available anymore from > > your get-selections output, but that should get most stuff. > > You will have to filter more than that, or that command will try to install > every package in the status file (including removed packages).
Err, I guess you would need get-selections|grep 'install$'|cut -f1 -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
