Re: Terminfo and emacs

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I see `apt-get --reinstall' is kind of close.  But barfs if files are
> missing or something.  Even with `apt-get install  --force-yes  package'
> It barfs if you've scrubbed some of the files it expects to find.

Hmmm... I usually just do a dpkg -i on the .deb file (usually hidden
under /var/cache/apt/archives).  I don't know offhand why apt-get
--reinstall would fail, or if dpkg would fail in the same way.  If it
happens again, post the error, it'll give us a better idea.

FWIW, I never used rpm --replacepkg either, so I'm probably not the
best one to ask.

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