[NTLUG:Discuss] Rebuild installed packages

[Fred Hensley]

For anyone who feels "hamstrung" by the sudo mechanism for executing commands as root, I might recommend the following:

sudo -s

This one commands creates a persistent root state until you exit.

Fred
-----Original Message-----
From: "./aal" <al_h at technologist.com>

Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:25:53 
To:"NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Rebuild installed packages


I tried a *buntu and found the hamstrung root account made simple
issues almost as hard to fix as they are in Windoze, but I do have
experience[scars].

Try this perhaps...
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/60237-ubuntu-reinstall.html

Good luck

../aal

On Dec 15, 2007 12:21 PM,  <ntlug at thorshammer.org> wrote:
>     Long story short, I clobbered some man page files in /usr/share/man/man1 though luckly that's all I clobbered. I am running Ubuntu, so is there a way to tell any of the apt programs to rebuild all installed packages? Or, better yet, is there a way to tell apt to scan all the packages and have it report (or reinstall) packages where it finds missing files? I seem to remember that there was a way to have apt scan your installed files and report missmatched md5sums.
>
> Robert Thompson
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