Re: did something stupid - removed gzip
A .deb file is gzipped twice, so without gzip, dpkg cannot install it...
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
>"Jason N. Price" <jprice@shagnog.com> wrote:
>>Okay, I just did something that, in hindsight, was very stupid. :) I have
>>been getting a lot of errors from gzip, so I decided to apt-get remove it
>>and then re-install it.
>
>Since somebody's already answered this, I'll just add that what you
>really want to do in this situation, for any package, is 'apt-get
>--reinstall install <package>'.
>
>HTH,
>
>
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