I think you should me an update or reinstall everything. <div>On 9/16/06, Luis <<a href="mailto:lemsx1@gmail.com">lemsx1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I suggest you download my backup.pl script: <a href="http://lems.kiskeyix.org/toolbox/?f=backup.pl&d=1">http://lems.kiskeyix.org/toolbox/?f=backup.pl&d=1</a> Then become root: sudo -i then create a file called .backuprc with: # # uncommend below what you want to customize # # BACKUPDIR must be specify for the script to work properly. # # unless you want to put the files in /home/backup TAR=/bin/tar # #COMPRESS_LEVEL=9 # ## bzip2 or gzip? or don't define if no compression is needed COMPRESS_DO=/bin/gzip # ## prefix to name of the file NAME=my-desktop # # ## Users must define this BACKUPDIR=/home # ##perl compatible + shell regex # #EXCLUDES=.*contain-this.*|\.ends-in-that$|starts-with.*|[0-9]*|.[a-z]*$ # #DIRS=other_dirs_to_backup_separated_by_spaces_or_commas SYSTEM=/etc /var/mail /var/spool /var/lib/iptables /root LOW_UID=1000 #EXC_ULIST= This script just backup all your directories defined in SYSTEM and all your users' homes with id's higher than 1000 (regular users). All the files will be placed in /home They will have names like: my-desktop-system-`date -I`.tar.gz, my-desktop-other-`date -I`.tar.gz, my-desktop-`list of users`-`date -I`.tar.gz And finally there will be a file called: my-desktop-selections.txt. Which is created with: dpkg --get-selections \* > my-desktop-selections.txt Once that's done, you can reformat your disk (assuming you can copy the tar files from /home to a safe disk, say a DVD). When you are done, re-install ubuntu using a Dapper disk. Then get the my-desktop-selections.txt file and re-install the stuff you had before with: sudo -i cat my-desktop-selections.txt | dpkg --set-selections dselect update && dselect install After that, if you ever need a configuration from your old system, you have a tar file that you can open by double-clicking on it, and copy the file to your /etc folder. Generally, unless you are on a server, you don't need these files ;-). ubuntu does the right thing for you at installation. Hope that helps somebody out there... On 9/16/06, Alexander Skwar <<a href="mailto:listen@alexander.skwar.name">listen@alexander.skwar.name</a>> wrote: > Hello! > > As I'm having very strange problems with Firefox and Thunderbird (see > "Can't start Thunderbird and themes in Firefox look bad"), I'd like to > reinstall all the packages that I've currently got installed. > > To do so, I tried to use aptitude. In aptitude, I highlighted "Installed > packages" and pressed L "Request that a package be reinstalled.". After > that, all the installed packages were selected for reinstallation. But > when I have aptitude start the installation, I get errors like this: > > ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ > │E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-headers-2.6.15-25 package. This▒│ > │ might mean you need to manually fix this package. ▒│ > │E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download ▒│ > │ [ Ok ] │ > └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ > > So I deselected all those packages which gave me these errors. But then, > I get: > > E: Couldn't configure pre-depend perl-base for debconf, probably a dependency cycle. > A package failed to install. Trying to recover: > Drücken Sie zum Fortsetzen die Eingabetaste. > > And now I'm fed up ;) > > Is there an *easy* way to reinstall all the currently installed packages? > > Thanks, > > Alexander Skwar > -- > Dick sein ist keine physiologische Eigenschaft - das ist eine > Weltanschauung. > -- Kurt Tucholsky > > > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> > -- ----)(----- Luis Mondesi *NIX Guru <a href="http://Kiskeyix.org">Kiskeyix.org</a> "We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on" -- Steve Jobs in an interview for MacWorld Magazine 2004-Feb No .doc: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div> -- Fernando PicassoWebSolutions Servicios de Diseño y Alojamiento Web <a href="http://www.picassowebsolutions.com">www.picassowebsolutions.com</a>