[Tfug] Well it's back to Ubuntu...

[Ian McEwen]

Untrue: 'aptitude reinstall foo' also works -- I use it frequently for
flashplugin-nonfree, which is rather buggy on my Ubuntu Hardy x86_64
system.

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:02:37PM -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:50:39AM -0700, Brian Vogel wrote:
> >   Hi everyone glad to see an active group in Tucson.
> >   Yes, people are deathly afraid of changing anything that doesn't have a
> >   check-box unless their local "geek" is hold their hand.
> >   Since it's the time of year for sugestions:
> >   sudo apt-get remove aptitude
> >   Happy hacking
> 
> Could you expand upon this at all?  Aptitude is by far the best package
> management tool/frontend I've used on any distro.  I hate not having it
> around.  The only thing it doesn't do is allow one to reinstall an existing
> package.  That must be done via the command line:
>   apt-get --reinstall install foo
> 
> 
> -- 
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