On Sunday 24 July 2016 16:24:27 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 24/07/2016 à 15:47, Hans a écrit : > > Am Sonntag, 24. Juli 2016, 09:30:12 schrieb S. P. Molnar: > >> How do I force the re-installation of a file and all of it's > >> dependencies? > > A file or a package ? > > > 1. I would deinstall the package (aptitude purge packagename), then maybe > > all orphaned libs > > Deinstalling has two flaws : > > 1) Deinstalling a package requires to deinstall all packages which > depend on it. > > 2) The dependencies may be used by other packages, so they may not be > orphaned. If you deinstall all the dependencies too, see 1). As many > packages depend on libc6, you'd end up deinstalling almost all the system. > > Instead I'd use this : > > apt-get --reinstall install <package list>
or: # aptitude reinstall <package> Lisi
