Re: did something stupid - removed gzip
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 at 20:08:24 -0700, John Galt wrote:
(Please don't cc me on list mail.)
> 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>'.
>
> A .deb file is gzipped twice, so without gzip, dpkg cannot install it...
But it's perfectly capable of doing --reinstall if you didn't remove it
beforehand.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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