> Deinstalling has two flaws : > > 1) Deinstalling a package requires to deinstall all packages which > depend on it.
Yes. > > 2) The dependencies may be used by other packages, so they may not be > orphaned. If you deinstall all the dependencies too, see 1). As many > packages depend on libc6, you'd end up deinstalling almost all the system. This might be a problem, of course. > > Instead I'd use this : > > apt-get --reinstall install <package list> Maybe if he can specify the package with the corrupt file, I would delete the file, then download it and then manually install it with dpkg -i package -- overwrite. Happy hacking Hans
