When running

apt-get install --reinstall XXX

What is really happening? Does this purge the old binaries then replace again? or just replace the new binary without purging the old one?

In other words --reinstall=remove+install or --reinstall=install/update and if it's remove then install would this be purge or remove which means would that remove configurations beside the binaries?

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which means would that remove configurations beside the binaries?

No. It will remove the package and NOT the dependencies and reinstall only the package. Config files are left as they are.

If you also want to re-install config files you can remove them yourself and use

sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" install --reinstall {package}

to reinstall those along with the package.

apt-get install --reinstall xxxcompletely removes the package (but not the config files or the packages that depend on xxx) and reinstalls the newest version of the package. So I guess it is running remove and not purge.

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