On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Brian wrote:
In the dpkg manual you'll find 'confnew' and 'confdef', apt-get accepts dpkg paramters. aptitude probably does too.
what is the exact syntax?
I tried:
apt-get --force-things confold dist-upgrade
E: Command line option --force-things is not understood
best regards,
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Pierre Frenkiel