apt-get system reinstallation

[NoOp]

On 07/17/2008 09:15 AM, Brad Sims wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 July 2008, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> Is there a simple way to try a "reinstall" of everything currently 
>> installed on my system?
>> 
>> I have 2 Ubuntu 8.04 systems, one where youtube videos crash Firefox 
>> constantly (flash problem?) and the other doesn't seem have trouble 
>> playing flash videos. So while the latest Firefox and flash plugins from 
>> the repos may have troubles, it may be a combination problem of some 
>> kind on the one that is causing issues?
>> 
>> I didn't know if there was a simple way to try an in-place reinstall of 
>> software to see if it was a linking or dependancy issue that could be 
>> causing flash videos to keel over on the one system.
>> 
> This little program will do what you want.
> 
> <Start Script>
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> # This script *MUST* be ran either
> #     under sudo.
> 
> # The 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l' part 
> #     displays intalled packages
> 
> # The `awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' part
> #     strips out the package names
> #     from the previous list
> 
> # The 'xargs apt-get --reinstall install' part
> #      uses each package name as an argument to
> #      apt-get; 'the --reinstall install' tells
> #      apt to reinstall the package if it is 
> #      already there
> 
> COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | xargs apt-get --reinstall install
> <End Script>
> 

Have you actually tried this?