[aklug] Re: doing a apt-get reinstall everything on debian?

aptitude is your friend:

# aptitude -f reinstall [pkgname]

So, then, theoretically, you could:

# dpkg -l | grep '^.i' | awk '{print $2}' > pkgs
# aptitude -f reinstall $(cat pkgs)

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> On Behalf Of techno curmudgeon
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:56 AM
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: [aklug] doing a apt-get reinstall everything on debian?
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> Hi all,
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> the root drive (ext2 on a usb thumbdrive) got corrupted on a small
> debian box I'm running. The box is nothing critical and an fsck took
> care of the fs level damage. The machine boots now, but there's
> apparently lots of little lib files and other stuff that got messed up
> when the thumbdrive barfed.
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> Now, I can certainly restore from backup (yes, I have one), but I was
> wondering if debian can do something like
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> # apt-get install --reinstall <everything>
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> Googling doesn't bring up anything obvious so if not then off the top
> of my head, I can bash something like (concept code, not real code)
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> # dpkg -l | awk | apt-get install --reinstall {}
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> but if apt already has that option somewhere that I just can't find,
> why reinvent the wheel?
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> My other question is whether doing a reinstall everything like this
> may actually be a bad idea. And if it is a bad idea, why ?
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> Thoughts?
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Received on Thu Jan 19 11:06:53 2012