purging removed packages
# COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep -v ^ii | awk '{print $2}' | \ xargs dpkg --purge…
reinstalling all packagese
for a in `cat /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -B 1 installed | \ grep -v installed | perl -ne 'if(/:s+(.*)/) {print qq($1n);}'`; \ do apt-get --reinstall install $a; done or # COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep ^ii | awk '{print $2}' | \ xargs apt-get -y --reinstall install…