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

[Ian McEwen]

Ah! I've never used the curses GUI, so I have no idea! It's odd that
they'd leave that out, but I certainly wouldn't put it past a GUI
designer somewhere.

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 06:44:29PM -0700, John Gruenenfelder wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:22:46PM -0500, Ian McEwen wrote:
> >Untrue: 'aptitude reinstall foo' also works -- I use it frequently for
> >flashplugin-nonfree, which is rather buggy on my Ubuntu Hardy x86_64
> >system.
> 
> My mistake... I should have been more precise.  You cannot (as far as I know)
> do this from within the aptitude text GUI.  You can do most other actions,
> though:  install, uninstall, purge, hold, etc.  But not reinstall it seems.
> 
> 
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