Is `dpkg-reconfigure --all` still available in 16.04?
Solution 1
Not equivalent, but probably what you are looking for if you want to be sure, everything is at least somehow configured:
dpkg --configure -a
Solution 2
You can try this script:
(
for i in `dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | awk '{print $2}'`; do
echo $i; sudo dpkg-reconfigure $i;
done
) 2>&1 | tee dpkg-reconfigure.log
It reconfigures all installed packages and saves the log to dpkg-reconfigure.log
file.
Solution 3
No, dpkg-reconfigure
on 16.04 (but also on 15.10) does not have the option --all
any more, although it was present in 14.04 (not sure about 14.10).
You could have verified that yourself by checking the command's manpage:
man dpkg-reconfigure
On a 16.04 (or 15.10) system, this manual page will not list an --all
argument, while on 14.04 one is present.
If you don't have those systems at hand, just read the online manpages: 16.04 - 15.10 - 14.04
(note for future readers: if one of the linked releases has reached end-of-life by the time you read this, the link will redirect to the latest release's manpage instead of showing the old, archived version)
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Leonardo Castro
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Leonardo Castro over 1 year
After upgrading to 16.04, I tried to use that command, but it seems that
dpkg-reconfigure
(ordpkg --reconfigure
) doesn't understand the option--all
.Is it still available? If not, is there an equivalent command?
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Ahmad Asjad almost 4 yearsDoesn't work on ubuntu 18.04