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Re: md5sums and verifying package contents



On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 11:10:49AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:

> > No need to download things twice.
> 
> Yes, if you haven't done an apt-get clean yet.

That's why you should use apt-get autoclean instead :).

> Currently the simplest solution appears to be "dpkg -r <package> ;
> apt-get install <package>". This is suboptimal.

The original .deb is really required to reinstall a package, if you don't want
to download it twice, just don't delete it.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
  Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.warande.net>

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