REINSTALL Ubuntu Without Formatting and Without using Boot CD

How To Re-Install Ubuntu

You may accidentally have corrupted your or misconfigured something in your ubuntu installation.
OR in case you had an unfortunate unsuccessful upgrade and their was no backup made or done.

Their are two commands that you can use reinstall ubuntu:-

1-You canĀ  use this command and run it in your terminal:-

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a

This will install ubuntu like a fresh installation and reconfigures each and every package completely and automatically.

Note:- This will take sometime as a whole new installation of ubuntu will be done.
2-Or you can run this command in your terminal

sudo apt-get install -f

This will come handy in caseĀ  some minor problems errors have ocurred.

{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Anish K.S January 3, 2010 at 8:17 am

i didn’t tried Ubundu yet.

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2 Shoaib January 3, 2010 at 9:23 am

go ahead n try it ,u’ll love it

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3 Shiva@Web Magazine January 2, 2010 at 12:19 pm

Quite nice share man…I am planning to install Ubuntu and if I mess up things, this will certainly come handy

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4 Shoaib January 2, 2010 at 12:34 pm

yeah it does work nicely .

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5 Pubudu Kodikara December 10, 2009 at 3:25 pm

Thanks mate! this is a great find for some one like me, who foolishly play with the ubnutu system files :P

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