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  aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents? local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2020-07-31 15:20 +0200
    Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents? local10 <local10@tutanota.com> - 2020-07-31 18:20 +0200
    Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2020-07-31 18:50 +0200
      Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents? Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2020-07-31 20:20 +0200

#225618 — aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

Am looking for a way to reinstall  a package and all "subpackages" the package depends on. Normally I use aptitude to install packages.

Any ideas? Thanks

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#225637

Jul 31, 2020, 15:28 by semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com:

> ...
> Also I did not put any license agreement on this, and did not think about it commercially. I am assuming that this wont be used for commercial purposes, but educational purposes, or for the purpose of making open source more available. I do not consider it a major improvement over aptitude or the whole debian and linux project. But should you consider using it for commercial purposes, or outside open-source goals and aims, I would like to know, and ask to discuss such use.
>
> Semih Ozlem
>

Thanks for the detailed response, I'll look into it.

My need for this is just a personal one-time use. I have a package that started to behave a bit strange so I want to reinstall it with all its dependencies just to be sure that nothing got corrupted over time. I was hoping  there would be a simple, easy way to do it but if not my plan was to purge the package and its dependences with aptitude's --purge-unused option and then just install it again as if it was new. I think this may be a simpler option for me.

Regards,

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#225643

On 2020-07-31 15:10 +0200, local10 wrote:

> Am looking for a way to reinstall a package and all "subpackages" the
> package depends on. Normally I use aptitude to install packages.

Something like this should do the trick:

# aptitude reinstall mypackage '~i~Rmypackage'

See the "Search term reference" in the aptitude user manual[1].
I haven't found a way to that recursively.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html

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Also dpkg has the following options to check files,  dpkg -V packagename
for verifying, dpkg -C packagename for auditing

       -V, --verify [package-name...]
              Verifies the integrity of package-name or all packages if
omitted, by comparing information from the files installed by a package
with the files metadata information
              stored  in the dpkg database (since dpkg 1.17.2).  The origin
of the files metadata information in the database is the binary packages
themselves. That metadata gets
              collected at package unpack time during the installation
process.

              Currently the only functional check performed is an md5sum
verification of the file contents against the stored value in  the  files
 database.   It  will  only  get
              checked if the database contains the file md5sum. To check
for any missing metadata in the database, the --audit command can be used.

              The  output  format  is  selectable with the --verify-format
option, which by default uses the rpm format, but that might change in the
future, and as such, programs
              parsing this command output should be explicit about the
format they expect.

       -C, --audit [package-name...]
              Performs database sanity and consistency checks for
package-name or all packages if omitted (per package checks since  dpkg
 1.17.10).   For  example,  searches  for
              packages that have been installed only partially on your
system or that have missing, wrong or obsolete control data or files. dpkg
will suggest what to do with them
              to get them fixed.

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>, 31 Tem 2020 Cum, 19:43 tarihinde şunu yazdı:

> On 2020-07-31 15:10 +0200, local10 wrote:
>
> > Am looking for a way to reinstall a package and all "subpackages" the
> > package depends on. Normally I use aptitude to install packages.
>
> Something like this should do the trick:
>
> # aptitude reinstall mypackage '~i~Rmypackage'
>
> See the "Search term reference" in the aptitude user manual[1].
> I haven't found a way to that recursively.
>
> Cheers,
>        Sven
>
>
> 1. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html
>
>

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