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I have installed FlightGear, a flight simulator. Some of the game's main files have been tampered with by a third-party app and the game no longer works.

It's a very big download and as I'm on a very limited bandwidth connection, I would like to know if there is a way to re-install the game from the installation files that Elementary OS's Software Center originally downloaded - instead of having to uninstall it and then re-download and re-install it all over again?

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    It should do that by default if its still available in /var/cache/apt/archives.
    – jordanm
    Commented Dec 13, 2013 at 4:22
  • Oh. Awesome. Thanks @jordanm - I could've tried but really didn't wanna take the chance. :)
    – uSeRnAmEhAhAhAhAhA
    Commented Dec 13, 2013 at 4:25

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Just run sudo apt-get install --reinstall package_name to reinstall the package, files belong to it will be overwritten automatically.

To find the package name, run dpkg -l | grep -i flightgear to figure out. There could be more than one package, usually you only need to reinstall the *-data package

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