Re: uninstall/reinstall

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

On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:08:50PM -0800, Corey Edwards wrote:
> Your idea sounds good to me, but I'm new to apt having just
> installed it last week. I do know, however, that dpkg -i
> package-name.deb will replace the package and keep all the
> dependencies correctly, so if you want to download the
> actual deb file, you could do that.
>

Thanks Corey,

my problem is, that i don't see the most simple solution. 
apt-get install checks, if the package is already installed
dpkg -i does not, so you are right. 

Regards,

Ingo


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