On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 03:28 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 16:15 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > Since Jim went out of his way helping to hunt for a good solution, I > > thought I would summarize here for folks that might have a similar need > > down the road. Experienced rpmers/bashers/perlers/pythoners/.... should > > probably skip this. > > > > Thanks Jim Perrin! > > > > Situation was that rpm --verify showed lots of missing files. <snip> > > A recent rpm --verify shows just the normal stuff now, so success was > > had (hmm... as long as it took, *I* was had ;-) > > > > HTH someone down the road. > > If you have a list of packages that were installed, you can provide that > to apt-get with the --reinstall option. > > apt-get install --reinstall <list of packages> Unfortunately for me, I have never installed that on my system. Don't even have the man page. And to keep peace on the list, I won't ask if you prefer it, if it's better, why doesn't CentOS... :-). I know how these things go and will just support the *reasonable* choices of the folks that choose things. However, if I find myself in this situation in the future and have discarded my scripts by then (likely), your suggestion will still be in my mind. > > Kind regards, > -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] > <snip the non-entertaining sig stuff> Thanks Dag. -- Bill
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