Reinstall package and its installed dependencies

Solution 1:

You can check all package dependencies with apt-cache:

apt-cache depends <package>

Using the results of that command, we get the following one, which re-installs <package> and its dependencies:

apt-cache depends <package> | grep '[ |]Depends: [^<]' | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ' | xargs sudo apt-get --reinstall install -y