On 02/18/15, Markus Reschke said the following...
 
 MR> Hi Darryl!
 MR> 
 MR> Feb 17 11:13 2015, Darryl Perry wrote to Maurice Kinal:
 MR> 
 MR>  DP> I'd love to force a reinstall of procps, but I can't find the proper 
 MR>  DP> command to do so.
 MR> 
 MR> apt-get --reinstall install procps
 MR> 
 MR> Don't you read man pages? ;)

Read all the help commands, but that one got lost in the shuffle.

root@debian:~# apt-get --reinstall install procps
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 244 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main procps i386 1:3.3.3-3 [244
kB]
Fetched 244 kB in 0s (337 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 189486 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../procps_1%3a3.3.3-3_i386.deb ...
Unpacking procps (1:3.3.3-3) over (1:3.3.3-3) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-3) ...
Setting up procps (1:3.3.3-3) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling
back to defaults
[ ok ] Setting kernel variables ...done.
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47) ...
root@debian:~# uptime
-bash: uptime: command not found

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