Re: need new function in apt-get
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Todd Jordan wrote:
> But if I do that I will have to reinstall the dependencys, in this case
> bind, and netbase. Needless to say, that would suck and take a lot of
> time. I have faced this problem more than once with different packages.
> So the question is, has anyone considered adding an apt-get reinstall ?
> It would just have to purge the program, temporarily ignoreing the
> dependencys, and reinstall it. How viable is this? Or is there another
> way I don't know about?
try
apt-get install --reinstall foo
Jason
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