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reinstalling debian /bin



On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:30:25AM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> > Use dpkg --get-selection to get a list of all installed
> > packages, then apt-get install --reinstall to reload them.
> 
> Instead of dpkg --get-selection (it never worked for me either), use this to
> get list of installed packages:

There's an s at the end. 

dpkg --get-selections

-dsr-
-- 
-. ---   -- --- .-. .   ... . -.-. .-. . - ... 
..-. ..- -.-. -.-   - .... .   -. ... .- 
..-.   ..-   -.-. -.   .-. -..   - .... ...   ..-   -.- -. .--   -.-. -..


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