Hi, I know this method. What I want is something to do an reisntalation for ALL the installed packages from the system, not a specific one. When you have tens of programms, it is no fun to make this process by hand !.
TIA, Ionutz On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Helge Hafting wrote: > dpkg -i package_filename > This seems to install a package no matter what. The files already > installed is overwritten. If you want to reinstall config too, use > dselect for uninstalling the package and its configuration. Type "_" > instead of "-" in dselect, that removes configuration too. Then reinstall > the package. I am not sure if there is a dedicated reinstall command, but > uninstall+install definitely does the trick. > > Helge Hafting