Reinstall packages

2009-07-13 Thread Thomas Kenyon
I am in the process of recovering from having a very damaged filesystem. Is there a method using either dpkg or apt/aptitude to get packages to refresh their files? The packages installed are up to date so I can't upgrade many of them. TIA for any help with this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Reinstall packages

2009-07-13 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Thomas Kenyon wrote: I am in the process of recovering from having a very damaged filesystem. Is there a method using either dpkg or apt/aptitude to get packages to refresh their files? The packages installed are up to date so I can't upgrade many

Re: Reinstall packages

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Thomas Kenyon wrote: I am in the process of recovering from having a very damaged filesystem. Is there a method using either dpkg or apt/aptitude to get packages to refresh their files? The

Re: How to reinstall packages ?

1998-08-31 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Thanks, This looks more like what I have wanted. Ionutz On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is quite easy in fact: # STEP 1: # first mount your cdrom; # I have an entry for it in /etc/fstab, but you may # have to specify the physical device here too # (oh and _first_

Re: How to reinstall packages ?

1998-08-31 Thread Ionut Borcoman
OK, I'll read teh manpage before trying it. :) I didn't try it yet. Ionutz On Fri, 28 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BT!! klonk! SCRIETCH! I made a small brainfart^H^H^H^H^Herror, this in fact doesn't work if you want to reinstall as it skips everything that is already

How to reinstall packages ?

1998-08-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman at lungu
Hi, M$ introduced for their program a reinstall method. Does apt or dpkg provide such a method ? It will be useful in the case your system crash and some important files are trashed. Eventually a method that let you chose if you want to reinstall the configuration files also (like when you

Re: How to reinstall packages ?

1998-08-28 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, I know this method. What I want is something to do an reisntalation for ALL the installed packages from the system, not a specific one. When you have tens of programms, it is no fun to make this process by hand !. TIA, Ionutz On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Helge Hafting wrote: dpkg -i

Re: How to reinstall packages ?

1998-08-28 Thread joost
On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Ionut Borcoman wrote: I know this method. What I want is something to do an reisntalation for ALL the installed packages from the system, not a specific one. When you have tens of programms, it is no fun to make this process by hand !. It is quite easy in fact: # STEP

Re: How to reinstall packages ?

1998-08-28 Thread joost
BT!! klonk! SCRIETCH! I made a small brainfart^H^H^H^H^Herror, this in fact doesn't work if you want to reinstall as it skips everything that is already installed. And it tries to install everything that wasn't installed before :-/ *blush* I hope this didn't screw your system Instead,