On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:35:58PM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:52:05AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > > > > > > You know when you install debian and debconf a screen whereby you can add > > > more sources to the sources.list file etc. > > > > > > Is there a dpkg-reconfigure option for that. > > Try running "apt-spy" > > > > also, apart from using dpkg -l to see what packages are installed. How > > > would I know what software / packages I can use dpkg-reconfigure with. > > > > dpkg-reconfigure is a program for re-running part of the installation > > of a package. You only use it when more direct methods are too messy. > > > > > Is there a list somewhere or something > > Someone recently told me you can use bash TAB completion to answer > this, but it doesn't work for me: > > dokg-reconfigure<TAB> > > This is a good question. I've asked it before too, and I've yet to > see a useful answer. >
I just a user, too. So, this may not be a useful answer, but... I can't imagine why or how this could work. dpkg-reconfigure is an executable program. It needs to be given the name of a package to work on. Tab completion might tell it to work on no package, or it might tell it to work on all installed packages. Neither is a useful action. And, the details of how the bash shell processes command line type-in make it impossible for the shell to get to the point of actually invoking dpkg-reconfigure. Instead, it issues a beep, which is computer speak for 'huh?' . HTH -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
