Re: Force Re-installation

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

> Deinstalling has two flaws :
> 
> 1) Deinstalling a package requires to deinstall all packages which
> depend on it.

Yes.
> 
> 2) The dependencies may be used by other packages, so they may not be
> orphaned. If you deinstall all the dependencies too, see 1). As many
> packages depend on libc6, you'd end up deinstalling almost all the system.

This might be a problem, of course.
> 
> Instead I'd use this :
> 
> apt-get --reinstall install <package list>

Maybe if he can specify the package with the corrupt file, I would delete the 
file, then download it and then manually install it with dpkg -i package --
overwrite.

Happy hacking

Hans