Max Horn wrote: > Yeah, so I'd suggest this: "man apt-get" :-)
I thought I had done this (lame excuse, I know). > I did that mysself just now. There is an "--reinstall" option. Yes, thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Works, too. OTOH, this does not work for me: > Alternatively, you could just use "fink reinstall bal". Now you only > need to make sure that apt-get redownloads the .deb. You could force > that by rm'ing the local copy of the .deb, I am not sure if apt-get > has an option to force a download. fink reinstall starts downloading source tarballs. apt-get seems to remove its .debs immediately, maybe that's a config option somewhere. But apt-get install without the --reinstall option just says it's sorry, but I already have the latest version. Thanks again. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
