Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Is there a simple way to try a "reinstall" of everything currently
> installed on my system?
>
>  
I have written up a page on how to do this here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReinstallingSamePackages

get back to me if you need any help with this. Not sure if it will solve
your original problem though.
> I have 2 Ubuntu 8.04 systems, one where youtube videos crash Firefox
> constantly (flash problem?) and the other doesn't seem have trouble
> playing flash videos. So while the latest Firefox and flash plugins from
> the repos may have troubles, it may be a combination problem of some
> kind on the one that is causing issues?
>
> I didn't know if there was a simple way to try an in-place reinstall of
> software to see if it was a linking or dependancy issue that could be
> causing flash videos to keel over on the one system.
>  
In this case you could try just using 'dpkg --get-selections >
<filename>' onto a flash disk or similar to record the state of the
system on each machine, then compare the lists using diff (I think they
are already sorted; if not use sort first on each list).

andy.

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