Holy oh my fuck, that did not need to be that complicated ( Read more... )

the debian apt folks just added a new feature - Package tags. The mailing list post describes why. Basically, it provides another way to find packages by what they do, what they're for, what they're made of, and what environs they run in ( Read more... )

echo apt-get install --reinstall $(dpkg -S $(file /usr/bin/* /bin/* /sbin/* /usr/sbin/* | egrep -v 'executa|link|ASCI' | awk -F: '{ print $1 }') | awk -F: '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq ( Read more... )