uninstall/reinstall

[Ingo Reimann <reimann@convert.uni-muenster.de>]

Hi folks,

just some practical question.

Does there exist a simple mechanism to reinstall a package, that might be
broken by some error? If i use dselect, all dependencies are also checked
and lots of packages might be removed.

would 

dpkg -r --force-depends  XXX ; apt-get install XXX

do what i want ? (Don't like to check it, not to get in trouble :-) )

Thanks,

Ingo
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