Re: How to force re-installing a package?

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

> 
>   Hello,
> 
>   I've done a very stupid thing taht removed the /bin/cat binary,
> so I think I have to reinstall the textutils package (is there any
> other/better
> solution?), but can't do it since it is marked installed/up-to-date. How
> do I force dselect to reinstall it?

Just use dpkg:

dpkg -i textutils...deb

will reinstall.

HTH,
Eric

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