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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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