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Reinstall apt package along with all of its dependencies
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reinstall-apt-package.sh
#!/bin/bash
PACKAGE_NAME=$1
LANGUAGE=en_US apt-cache depends --important --no-pre-depends --recurse --installed $PACKAGE_NAME \
| grep '[ |]Depends: [^<]' \
| cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ' | sort | uniq \
| xargs apt-get install --reinstall
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