On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I accidentally misconfigured the package 'snort', so dpkg is unable to
> >finish the installation process. I am unable to run dpkg-reconfigure,
> >because the package is not fully installed. I am also unable to run
> >dpkg-preconfigure, but that has no effect because the package already has
> >been configured. I forced deinstall and tried to reinstall it, but the
> >debconf dialog does not appear again, and the error is still the same.
> >
> >How can you let dpkg forget old configuration settings for one package?
>
> Purge it ('dpkg --purge <package>' or 'apt-get --purge remove
> <package>').
>
That works!
Thanks,
Sebastiaan
