Aptitude force reinstall package

Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked 0. Related 0. Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Ask Ubuntu works best with JavaScript enabled. This is useful for packages with many reverse dependencies. In this tutorial you will learn how to use apt-get reinstall to reinstall packages on Debian and Ubuntu.

Note: Using the --purge remove option to remove packages and installing them again achieves similar results. However, it also erases configuration files. Using the --reinstall command is a simple process. The syntax is as follows:. This is how to reinstall htop, an interactive process viewer on Ubuntu, using the --reinstall flag.

Aptitude is a graphical user interface for the apt package manager. Post by stevepusser » It looks like you still don't have a complete upgrade, since the glib and network-manager are still Wheezy versions, so your system is in a broken state. You said apt-get wants to remove and install hundreds of packages, but maybe this is what the upgrade requires.

Post by fireExit » the upgrade path from lmde1 to lmde 2 betsy is not straightforward. Post by TomRoche » summary: 2 more questions plus responses to yours : 1. Particularly, is it referring to the before-dist-upgrade configuration or the after-dist-upgrade config?

And apologies in advance for not replying to emariz, but I composed the following before seeing that post. Actually I asked TomRoche wrote: if there's a better place to ask Debian-packaging-specific questions, please lemme know.

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