Peter Clark <peter-clark at bethel.edu> wrote: > Hey Debian people, is there some way to quickly check the integrity of > a ll the packages installed on a box and reinstalling those packages > that have missing or corrupted files? Debian packages are installed with md5sums in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.md5sums file. If you want to check a package, change to root (cd /) and run md5sum -c /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.md5sums. There may be "helper tools" written to make this automated, but it's simple enough to go through with a shell script: #/bin/sh -e # Check md5sums for each package, exit when error found cd / for sums in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums do md5sum -c $sums | $PAGER done -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr