You can tell aptitude to reinstall a package with "aptitude reinstall libpopper13". In the test UI the key press is "L".
On May 17, 2012 4:26 PM, "David" <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to force apt to re-install a repository package that I have > over-written with dpkg > > > Problem: > xpdf is broken in Ubuntu 11.04 > > First solution: > took advice (silly me) to fix it by manually installing a downloaded .deb > > # dpkg -i libpopper13 [later version] > > That failed to install because of a dependency problem. > > Now I want to revert to the repository version but aptitude won't let me. > When I try to remove the broken version it wants to take a large number of > dependent packages with it - including cups, gimp, and lots of other > important stuff.... > > How do I get back to the repository version? > > -- > David McQuire > 0418 310312 > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/**mailinglists.html<http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
