On 0, Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Thomas Kenyon wrote: > > I am in the process of recovering from having a very damaged filesystem. > > > > Is there a method using either dpkg or apt/aptitude to get packages to > > refresh their files? > > > > The packages installed are up to date so I can't upgrade many of them. > > Certainly possible. In fact, it's possible to use any of the tools you > mentioned seperately: > > dpkg --install package_<whatever>.deb > apt-get install --reinstall package > aptitude reinstall package >
Does reinstall do a purge/install or a remove/install? If his filesystem is corrupted I'd imagine that purging the packages before reinstalling is pretty important. -- http://fuzzydev.org/~pobega http://identi.ca/pobega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org