Parece ser suficiente adicionar o sinal --reinstall
(pelo menos no meu sistema 16.04), por exemplo,
$ sudo apt-get install --print-uris wget
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
wget is already the newest version (1.17.1-1ubuntu1.2).
wget set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 73 not upgraded.
mas
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall --print-uris wget
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 73 not upgraded.
Need to get 298 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
'http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/w/wget/wget_1.17.1-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb' wget_1.17.1-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb 298270 MD5Sum:09a54f8d74c78598f91c4b376f3d2f0e
NOTA: isso não funciona se o pacote estiver armazenado em cache:
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall --download-only wget
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 73 not upgraded.
Need to get 298 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 wget amd64 1.17.1-1ubuntu1.2 [298 kB]
Fetched 298 kB in 0s (382 kB/s)
Download complete and in download only mode
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall --print-uris wget
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 73 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/298 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
mas depois de limpar o cache
$ sudo apt-get clean
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall --print-uris wget
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 73 not upgraded.
Need to get 298 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
'http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/w/wget/wget_1.17.1-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb' wget_1.17.1-1ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb 298270 MD5Sum:09a54f8d74c78598f91c4b376f3d2f0e