On Lu, 20 oct 14, 16:16:00, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > >At what stage? The postinst script of a package is only executed at > >installation time. What you did in the meantime... > > I did: apt-get --reinstall install samba-common > > So, it seems that with --reinstall, the postinst script is not > executed, which is not what I would expect.
You might have better success with
dpkg-reconfigure samba-common
instead.
> I saw:
>
> You can reinstall a package with sudo apt-get install --reinstall
> packagename. This completely removes the package (but not its
> dependencies), and then re-install the package.
That doesn't appear to be from the apt-get manual and seems wrong to me.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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