Re: Force Re-installation

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 24 July 2016 16:24:27 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 24/07/2016 à 15:47, Hans a écrit :
> > Am Sonntag, 24. Juli 2016, 09:30:12 schrieb S. P. Molnar:
> >> How do I force the re-installation of a file and all of it's
> >> dependencies?
>
> A file or a package ?
>
> > 1. I would deinstall the package (aptitude purge packagename), then maybe
> > all orphaned libs
>
> Deinstalling has two flaws :
>
> 1) Deinstalling a package requires to deinstall all packages which
> depend on it.
>
> 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.
>
> Instead I'd use this :
>
> apt-get --reinstall install <package list>

or:
# aptitude reinstall <package>

Lisi