On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:56:00PM -0700 or thereabouts, Joshua McGee wrote: > I accidentally answered "keep" to the question > > " ==> File on system created by you or by a script. > ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. > What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:" > > That was the wrong choice, but I cannot figure out how to get that > prompt again. I've tried removing and reinstalling, and it does so > without a prompt.
How did you remove the package ? Generally speaking, one should use
'aptitude purge package-name', in order to get rid of configuration files
which aren't usually removed when one does a plain 'remove' of a package.
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Regards
Stephen
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