Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

On 04/24/2008 07:29 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
Mumia W.. wrote the following on 04/24/2008 12:06 PM:
On 04/24/2008 11:40 AM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
[...]
I don't know if I have a system that qualifies as a "good" system right now! :-(



What do you mean when you say they don't have a "full" set of packages?

Things don't act the same on every system

How do you know that packages are missing?
eg. in file manager I double-click a zip file and nothing happens. There is no archive manager now. But there was!

Iceweasel just shuts down on one machine, not another.


That problem suggests more than just some packages are missing.

Wine doesn't open on one system anymore.


Again, something's wrong with that.

And other strange things like that.

Are these machines accessible through the Internet?


How do you know which packages are missing?
I don't know which packages are missing! I just know that _some_ of them are. And there's the rub!



I can usually figure out how to fix the problems that come up, but that doesn't get all of them fixed.

I am tired of running around with a fly-swatter. I need a *big* can of ~raid~!!

TIA!
Dennis




Do some cursory checks to confirm that you aren't plagued by HD errors, RAM memory errors or rootkits. After that, I see two ways for you going forward:

1) Fix one machine to function correctly, then duplicate the selections using the method described by "s. keeling."

2) Fix one machine to function correctly, then use the df/netcat method to duplicate the hard disk partition. This assumes that the OS is install onto one partition and that the hardware is the same between the two machines.

When using method 1, remember to manually investigate and possibly duplicate the configurations stored in /etc. When using method 2, remember to make the appropriate configuration changes in /etc, e.g. hostname, IP address (if static), passwords, etc. ;-)


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