On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 08:50:24PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > >Doing "aptitide reinstall foo" doesn't seem to reinstall the > >maintainer's configuration files. What do I need to do to have the > >system ask me if I want to use the modified version or the package > >maintainer's version? > > > > I would just do a purge, remove any vestigial files in /etc and then > install it again fresh. > > -Roberto > Hi, I had some /etc/ corruption and I wanted to install anything that was missing from the $PKG.list. I was not able to find any debian commands to do this. Not all packages can be purged and reinstalled due to dependencies and might also be 'essential'. Any hints welcome. reinstall did not do it. -Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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