[ReinstallingSamePackages] was Re: apt-get system reinstallation

andy baxter andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
Fri Jul 25 10:46:41 UTC 2008


NoOp wrote:
> I very much appreciate your work/effort, and I am not trying to be a
> stick-in-the-mud, but many folks (experienced and new alike) take the
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community pages as gospel - whether they should
> or not is another issue. If they go through the process thinking that
> this will 'reinstall' anything then they are likely to come back and
> complain. FWIW I think that the page is quite important, and very useful
> once corrected, so I hope that you don't mind a little feedback in the
> process.
>
>   
Ok, thanks for the feedback. I have now edited the page to a point which 
I think addresses the problems you've noted (as well as adding a 'known 
problems' section at the end). Does this look OK to you? (Apart from the 
page name which the system won't let me change).

andy.




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