Originally Posted by Schturman

One thing weird for me why we can't directly reinstall original package. I got this error (in this case i tried to download):

Code:

 # apt-get install --reinstall telepathy-gabbl
e -d
Reading package lists
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of telepathy-gabble is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and1 not upgraded.
~ #

Why we first need to remove this package ?
Who already did it can cache and share the original package please ?