On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Brian wrote:

In the dpkg manual you'll find 'confnew' and 'confdef', apt-get accepts
dpkg paramters. aptitude probably does too.

    what is the exact syntax?
    I tried:
    apt-get --force-things confold dist-upgrade
    E: Command line option --force-things is not understood

best regards,
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Pierre Frenkiel

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