In a message of Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:55:20 BST, Wulfy writes:
>Laura Creighton wrote:
>
>>Speaking of commands unknown to me, a debian command that says, 'find
>>out every package I have loaded and reinstall every last one of them a
>>second time' would also be useful. I don't know any command like that,
>>or a way to get aptitude to spit out a list of all the packages I have
>>installed into a file someplace where I can make a script out of this.
>>
>>
>Perhaps:
>"dpkg --get-selections >deb-file.txt" to find what's loaded and "dpkg
>--set-selections >
>"man dpkg" for details....
>
>I hope this helps...
>
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Alas, this did not work. I do not think that
dkpg --set-selections actually makes my machine go off and
download the new packages and reinstalls them. Correct?

Laura


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Laura Creighton wrote:

>Alas, this did not work. I do not think that
>dkpg --set-selections actually makes my machine go off and
>download the new packages and reinstalls them. Correct?
>
>Laura
>
You need an "aptitude upgrade" in there, I think after the "set".
Sorry, I'm something of a newbie myself and forget some details...

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Wulfy wrote:

> Laura Creighton wrote:
>
>> Alas, this did not work. I do not think that dkpg --set-selections
>> actually makes my machine go off and
>> download the new packages and reinstalls them. Correct?
>>
>> Laura
>>
> You need an "aptitude upgrade" in there, I think after the "set".
> Sorry, I'm something of a newbie myself and forget some details...

Or perhaps an "aptitude install"?

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Well, I have fixed my problem, but I don't understand exactly why
I have. I decided that I really needed to get libfontcong regenerated.
so I made a /usr/lib/fontconfigs and moved the /usr/lib/*fontc* there,
so that I could move them back if I couldn't get things to biuld.

And -- dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig did not regenerate the package.
But the perplexing thing is that when I happened to reboot, all the
problems went away. So it seems that as long as I don't _have_
a libfontconfig, then all is well.

Does anybody understand this? Does anybody know why this works, so
I can figure out what it is that I need to do next to really fix the
problem?

Laura


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Laura Creighton wrote:

> And -- dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig did not regenerate the package.

Well, it shouldn't. It just asks you the same questions you were asked
the first time you installed it.

> But the perplexing thing is that when I happened to reboot, all the
> problems went away. So it seems that as long as I don't _have_
> a libfontconfig, then all is well.

What does
$ apt-cache policy fontconfig libfontconfig1
say? As the reconfiguring of fontconfig worked, you should have
libfontconfig1 installed. They depend on each other.
Maybe you should run (as root)
# aptitude reinstall fontconfig libfontconfig1

> Does anybody understand this? Does anybody know why this works, so
> I can figure out what it is that I need to do next to really fix the
> problem?

I don't know exactly, but as far as I understand the postinst script of
fontconfig (which is a depend of libfontconfig) runs "fc-cache". This is
regenerating the font-database. So maybe this solved you're problem.

Ulrich


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