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Having mucked up my system fairly... horridly, I just want to get my system back to a fresh install state, where I have absolutely no leftovers from my current state, including packages, configs, users, and so forth. Problem is, I just don't have a usb flash drive [etc] handy.

Tim
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Anon
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  • possible duplicate of [Find (and reinstall) packages with corrupted files (without breaking anything)](http://askubuntu.com/questions/57682/find-and-reinstall-packages-with-corrupted-files-without-breaking-anything) – Danatela Apr 08 '14 at 06:25
  • Also look at [this script](http://dannyman.toldme.com/2010/05/05/ubuntu-reinstall-all-packages/). – Danatela Apr 08 '14 at 06:28

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What about running this in terminal:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

jmunsch
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