Brian White wrote: > Apt-get really needs an option to "force" install a number of packages. > Sometimes, like after a power outage that corrupted one of my disks, I > need to reinstall a number of packages. > > Unfortunaly, the only way to do that right now is to "dpkg --remove" them > and then "apt-get install" them. Some packages are essential which means > I have to fetch them manually and "dpkg --install" those.
You mean like --reinstall? RTFM. -- see shy jo
