Re: how to reinstall?

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:22:17PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:29:29PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:

- do 'dpkg --set-selections < mypackages' for setting packages
- do 'aptitude dselect-upgrade' to install all packages

I always just run 'aptitude install' for this. Where is the
'dselect-upgrade' action documented? A quick search through the man page
and the README didn't provide anything related.

its documented in apt-get. I don't know if it is in aptitude or not.

A

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