[svlug] Debian rebuild

J C Lawrence claw at kanga.nu
Tue Oct 17 23:19:01 PDT 2000


On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 19:18:45 -0700 
Aaron Lehmann <aaronl at vitelus.com> wrote:

> dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "install" { print $1}' |
> egrep -v '(perlmagick)' | xargs apt-get --reinstall install -f

This does better with a "-n 1" (or some other small number) if the
number of packages is large (as it is for me).  If you do this, its
also beneficial to add a "-y" to the apt-get line.

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