apt-get system reinstallation

[NoOp]

On 07/09/2008 12:19 PM, sktsee wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 11:38 -0700, NoOp wrote: 
>> On 07/09/2008 11:01 AM, sktsee wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> > It does look like all the packages for installation that need to be
>> > downloaded were fetched, though. Were any packages re-installed, or are
>> > they all in a hold state? What does "sudo dpkg --configure --pending"
>> > output?
>> > 
>> 
>> Nothing.
>> 
> Bummer :(
> 
>> Looks like it just built the dependency tree, database etc., and did
>> nothing further. And looking at the history I see only the updates that
>> were performed today prior to trying the command.
>> 
>> Anyway, if you come up with something later I'm happy to give it a go.
>> Doesn't matter if it blows the install as it's only a test drive anyway
>> and only contains fresh (8.04.1) server, desktops etc., so there aren't
>> any oddball packages to worry about.
>> 
>> 
> Well, at the very least, the package cache for that machine is now
> completely up-to-date :)

I took the list of packages that 'aptitude reinstall ~i' spit out, put
them into Writer in OOo, removed all of the double spaces &
end-paragraph markers, put sudo apt-get install --reinstall on the front
and pasted the whole thing into a terminal. It currently says that I
have 1190 for reinstalland need to get 648MB of archives, I hit yes, and
off it goes...