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



Also dpkg has the following options to check files,  dpkg -V packagename for verifying, dpkg -C packagename for auditing

       -V, --verify [package-name...]
              Verifies the integrity of package-name or all packages if omitted, by comparing information from the files installed by a package with the files metadata information
              stored  in the dpkg database (since dpkg 1.17.2).  The origin of the files metadata information in the database is the binary packages themselves. That metadata gets
              collected at package unpack time during the installation process.

              Currently the only functional check performed is an md5sum verification of the file contents against the stored value in  the  files  database.   It  will  only  get
              checked if the database contains the file md5sum. To check for any missing metadata in the database, the --audit command can be used.

              The  output  format  is  selectable with the --verify-format option, which by default uses the rpm format, but that might change in the future, and as such, programs
              parsing this command output should be explicit about the format they expect.

       -C, --audit [package-name...]
              Performs database sanity and consistency checks for package-name or all packages if omitted (per package checks since  dpkg  1.17.10).   For  example,  searches  for
              packages that have been installed only partially on your system or that have missing, wrong or obsolete control data or files. dpkg will suggest what to do with them
              to get them fixed.

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>, 31 Tem 2020 Cum, 19:43 tarihinde şunu yazdı:
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


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