[Gllug] Repairing ubuntu packages

[Jack Bertram]

* Jan Kokoska <kokoskaj at seznam.cz> [050111 01:00]:
> Nice systematic approach but unfortunately doesn't seem to work for me
> here. Only a few more packages than would be in normal dist-upgrade,
> parent wants to reinstall everything.
> 
> My approach to the very same problem earlier was:
> 
> COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep ^ii | awk '{print $2}' | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs
> apt-get install --reinstall -y


Ah - this is promising.  I did 

dpkg --set-selection > packagelist.txt
cat packagelist.txt | xargs apt-get install --reinstall

and so far so good.  Thanks.

> parts and since the system is badly damaged some of the first list will
> fail (it thinks it has pre/post inst/rm scripts, while some of them are
> in fact garbage), so subsequent parts of the package list will not be
> installed this way until the begining gets fixed (which needs to be done
> manually anyway).

My system isn't that borked - there are just files all over the place
with random bits of other files in them :)  Fingers crossed.

> Moral of the story? Don't return to a swap-suspended system on whose
> root partition you just accidentally performed dist-upgrade from another
> kernel ;))

Ouch!  Thanks for the help

jack

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