A .deb file is gzipped twice, so without gzip, dpkg cannot install it... On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
>"Jason N. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Okay, I just did something that, in hindsight, was very stupid. :) I have >>been getting a lot of errors from gzip, so I decided to apt-get remove it >>and then re-install it. > >Since somebody's already answered this, I'll just add that what you >really want to do in this situation, for any package, is 'apt-get >--reinstall install <package>'. > >HTH, > > -- I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
