Wow, Thanks for the quick and helpfull response Matthew and ehm... I suppose this is what they mean by "Debians helpfull community"! I'm possitively amazed! :-D
one more question though, > > > So you could do something like this in your postinst: > > if [ "$1" = "configure" -a "$2" = "" ]; then > # Ask your questions > fi > > Because the only time that the second argument will be empty is on the > initial install -- after that, $2 will always contain the previously > configured version. > > Would this still allow users to issue a dpkg-reconfigure? And never heard of the hello package, but I will install it right away :-) Regards, Luke