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Re: How to force re-installing a package?



On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Mamoun Alissali wrote:

>   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?

Download the package by FTP and just do

dpkg -i package.deb

[ If you had it on CD-ROM, skip the FTP part ].


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