on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:00:26PM +0200, Johann Spies (jspies@sun.ac.za) wrote: > A request of many of the people was that there should be more > opportunity to go back to a previous screen during the installation > scripts On the installation scripts, this is possible by selecting an arbitrary portion of the installation process. Some of these options are somewhat dependent -- you'll want to unmount partitions before repartitioning your drive, for example. > especially while configuring packages like xserver-xfree86. If a > mistake was made during the installation process e.g. while selecting > packages, it is not always possible to go back and rectify the > situation. For a newbie this is a serious problem. As suggested, dpgk-reconfigure works...for packages which use debconf (not all do). You can also do $ dpkg --reinstall install package ...to force reinstallation (and reconfiguration) of a package. First time through, I *** STRONGLY *** advocate installing a _minimal_ set of packages, and installing additional ones one-by-one. This tends to result in a better understaning of what packages have been installed, and less confusion (ultimately) over package configuration -- you're usually dealing with only a few at a time. You also get good training on the packaging system. OTOH, it takes a little longer to get going. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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