On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:

>
> On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 11:00 AM, Ben Hines wrote:
> >
> > Hmm? dpkg -r huh? When it says "reinstall", do that: "fink reinstall
> > tetex-texmf"
>
> <shrug> dpkg -r, fink install or dpkg -r, dpkg -i re-installs too.

If you use dpkg, you have to put in the path to the deb, whereas with
"fink reinstall" you ust need the package name.

Also, in general "fink reinstall" is easier, because if you have to
reinstall a package that other packages depend on, it gets handled
automatically, whereas dpkg will complain about the dependencies.

For that matter there's always "apt-get install --reinstall"

>
> Actually, come to thing of it, just dpkg -i would, too.
>
> (I probably did it the dpkg way because I'm more familiar with Debian.)
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