Bug#100995: apt needs a "force" option

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Brian White wrote:
> Apt-get really needs an option to "force" install a number of packages.
> Sometimes, like after a power outage that corrupted one of my disks, I
> need to reinstall a number of packages.
> 
> Unfortunaly, the only way to do that right now is to "dpkg --remove" them
> and then "apt-get install" them.  Some packages are essential which means
> I have to fetch them manually and "dpkg --install" those.

You mean like --reinstall? RTFM.

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