[Gllug] debian configure

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Feb 6 11:37:43 UTC 2002


On Wednesday, 6 Feb 2002, Jonathan Dye wrote:
>>> Is there a way to get dpkg (or any of the other package tools) to
>>> reconfigure a package that has already been installed and configured?
>>dpkg --reconfigure package_name  
>It didn't seem to have that option.  Maybe I just can't type!

Actually, it's dpkg-reconfigure. This will only work with packages
that use debconf. Failing that, inspecting the postinst script in
/var/lib/dpkg/info is where I would start.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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