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Terminal command for reinstall of Ubuntu packages

2 December 2009 No Comment

If you have seriously FUBARed your system and need to get back to basics, run the following command at terminal. It will reinstall and reconfigure your distribution packages and correct your mistakes.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a

Fix minor dependency issues with this less time consuming command

sudo apt-get install -f

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