On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 at 20:08:24 -0700, John Galt wrote: (Please don't cc me on list mail.)
> 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>'. > > A .deb file is gzipped twice, so without gzip, dpkg cannot install it... But it's perfectly capable of doing --reinstall if you didn't remove it beforehand. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
