[Gllug] Repairing ubuntu packages

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 16:49 +0000, Morris, Simon wrote:

> I can provide half the answer for you here.
> 
> If you run the following command you get a list of the packages you
> currently have installed
> 
> COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' > ~/packages.txt
> 
> You could then (try) and restore the previous set of packages with
> 
> Apt-get install `cat ~/packages.txt`
> 
> However, this doesn't always work :(

A better route would be:-

dpkg --get-selections > package_list.txt


Then:-

dpkg --set-selections < package_list.txt
apt-get dselect-upgrade

HTH,

Mike.

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