On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 07:42 +0100, Tixy wrote: [...] > When reinstalling packages that were installed automatically to satisfy > dependencies, you would want to make sure their state is set back to > auto installed after forcibly reinstalling them. > > I've not done this sort of thing, but to get and set package states > 'apt-mark' looks like the tool. Try 'man apt-mark'.
Actually, searching on the internet there seems to be lots of different suggested methods for 'reinstall all debian packages' and I don't have the experience to recommend any. Though I would certainly want to use a tool to get a record of currently installed packages and their state before doing anything first - so I had a method of checking results and fixing any mess I'd caused. -- Tixy
