On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:10:09PM -0400, Dan Christensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Michael Abraham Shulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just upgraded a bunch of packages to unstable and now my X server > > dies saying > > > > Fatal server error: > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > This happened to me to. I downloaded the xfonts-base deb and did dpkg > -i on it (same version I already had installed). The problem was that > the file > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias > > was missing, but to be safe I reinstalled the whole package. I never > figured out what caused this. > > BTW, is there a way to get apt to download and reinstall the current > version of a package?
$ apt-get install foo --reinstall
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