Thanks for the all the replies. The only reason I want to reinstall is to create the missing directories again from a package. Its seems a bit long winded to uninstall the package then re-install, but if that is the only way then I guess I have to get used to using two tools instead of one. As a side note does apt-get allow a package to be re-installed. When going through the man page I couldn't see any option for downloading. I had to use up2date to do that. Also why has fedora considered yum for , when up2date does everything that needs to be done, like downloading packages and reinstalling. I have found that yum and up2date are generally of the same speed. the reason why I say this is because yum for keeps re-reading and sometimes re-downloads the package metadata. Apt-get seems much faster than yum. Dan
