Hi James On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:26 PM, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au
wrote:
I always thought that apt-get install --reinstall would reinstall a package, but it doesn't seem to work. I broke a file that belongs to a package (/etc/xen/scripts/vscsi) and want it reinstalled from the package source but it doesn't work - even if I delete the file, --reinstall doesn't put it back again.
The man page doesn't tell me anything immediately obvious, although the solution will probably come to me as soon as I've hit send here.
Any suggestions?
Dont know if this is what you need but maybe an apt-get purge <package> will give you a fresh starting point -- Mark "Hiddensoul" Clohesy Mob Phone: (+61) 406 417 877 Email: hiddensoul@twistedsouls.com G-Talk: mark.clohesy@gmail.com - www.shed.twistedsouls.com - GNU/Linux.. Linux Counter #457297 "I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code" "Linux is user friendly...its just selective about who its friends are" "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a V8 station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" "The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers"