Chris Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The question is: how does one go about reverse engineering the contants > of /var/lib/dpkg/status? you can get a list of packages installed from /usr/share/doc, you can probably do something like; cd /usr/share/doc for a in * ; do echo $a install >> /tmp/pkg done dpkg --set-selections < /tmp/pkg That just sets the intended state, the package system still thinks everything is uninstalled. You should eb able to do; apt-get dselect-upgrade But it will want to reinstall everything. There's probably a better way. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
