On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:02:54AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:58:54AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > > Another thing I would like to see, is a "force-install" on apt-get or > > something... I want to reinstall a package sometimes, don't want to go > > and download it by hand to be able to use dpkg -i ... > > dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/<package>_<version>.deb > > > No need to download things twice. Yes, if you haven't done an apt-get clean yet. Currently the simplest solution appears to be "dpkg -r <package> ; apt-get install <package>". This is suboptimal. Hugo van der Merwe -- To send me private (non-world-readable) mail, GPG encrypt it. 1024D/60715698: 5F2E 8EC2 E0A4 5D25 0569 F281 4A6C D76D 6071 5698
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