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Re: general packaging problem



lee@sectionIV.com (Lee Bradshaw) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> dpkg seems to be indicating I have packages installed properly, but I don't
> have all the files from the packages. How should I force this package to be
> reinstalled? Does anyone have a script to veryify the installed software
> against the Contents file?

You can download the package and install it by hand (dpkg -i). Have a
look at it before: less *.deb if everything is ok with it.

HTH,

Jens


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Jens.Ritter@weh.rwth-aachen.de       grimaldi@debian.org
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 illogical from scratch."
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