[plug] Repairing Debian

[James Devenish]

In message <200409191757.i8JHvG2h022898 at mailserver3.hushmail.com>
on Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:57:16AM -0700, Mageaere wrote:
> I seem to remember something about this mentioned before but I can't
> remember where to look. What I want is something that can clean up a
> debian installation that may be corrupted by tarball installs.
> 
> It would go through and verify that all files from the parts of a filesystem
> that should not change without installing new software like bin and lib
> directories are the same ones that were installed by all the debs that
> have been installed.

One thing that has been mentioned is 'debsums':
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=debsums+%2Bsite%3Amail.plug.linux.org.au
Brad Campbell has showed how affected .deb packages can then be
reinstalled using apt-get.