apt-get system reinstallation

[Bart Silverstrim]

NoOp wrote:
> On 07/10/2008 05:51 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 
>> Seems to be a good way to do the verification! I was running this on the 
>> "firefox flash working" system to test (it has less software installed 
>> so wouldn't take as long), running in one terminal and getting:
>>>  sudo md5sum -c /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums > /home/bsilver/results.txt
>>> [sudo] password for bsilver: 
>>> md5sum: WARNING: 9 of 1938 computed checksums did NOT match
>>> md5sum: WARNING: 9 of 1938 computed checksums did NOT match
>>> md5sum: WARNING: 9 of 1938 computed checksums did NOT match
>>> md5sum: WARNING: 9 of 1938 computed checksums did NOT match
>> I was guessing they're config files of some kind, but running
>>> cat results.txt |grep -i " OK "
>> (yes, I know this isn't as elegant as it could be...) yielded *no* 
>> results...so only the OK's are being redirected into results.txt?
> 
> Try:
> 
> cat /home/bsilver/results.txt | grep "FAILED"

I'm going back to bed.

I skimmed the output and skimmed it again in Gedit and never saw that 
(the file was over 7 meg, I console myself with that thought...)

Thank you for the quick answer.