Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2020-07-31 15:10 +0200, local10 wrote:

> Am looking for a way to reinstall a package and all "subpackages" the
> package depends on. Normally I use aptitude to install packages.

Something like this should do the trick:

# aptitude reinstall mypackage '~i~Rmypackage'

See the "Search term reference" in the aptitude user manual[1].
I haven't found a way to that recursively.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html