Re: Reinstall a package

[neonatus@neonatus.net]

* On 05-07-01 at 00:18 Moritz Schulte (moritz@chaosdorf.de) wrote:
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> neonatus@neonatus.net writes:
> 
> > I have lost several files due to an fs inconsistency on ext2 fs, I
> > would therefore like to just reinstall certain packages, to replace
> > the lost files.  Is there an easy was how this can be done? I
> > checked the dpkg man page and did not find anything like reinstall.
> 
> 'dpkg -i foo.deb' will reinstall the package foo, if it's already
> installed. If you want to use APT, you've to use --reinstall in
> addition to 'install'.
> 
>         hth,
> 	moritz
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Thank you!

Bostjan
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