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

On 01/19/2012 11:06 AM, Leif Sawyer wrote:
>
> 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)
>

And after your system is back up / operational, I highly recommend
installing "debsums" - it will validate files installed from packages
against the MD5 checksums for your installed packages.

R.

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Received on Fri Jan 20 08:45:55 2012