RE: created problems uninstalling xdm

["Jim Hribar" <jimhribar@msn.com>]

Woohoo! Things did not work *exactly* as you suggested, but I fixed
things by doing:

apt-get --purge remove xdm
apt-get install xdm

Thanks,

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Torsten Wolny [mailto:torwo@torsten-wolny.de] 
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:27 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: created problems uninstalling xdm

Hello,

Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2002 10:10 schrieb Andy Saxena:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:46:02PM -0400, Jim Hribar wrote:
> > I uninstalled xdm (apt-get remove xdm) and which in turn
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
better: apt-get --purge remove xdm. This will remove xdm with all 
config-files. When you delete config files manualy, apt will never 
install this files again because they are modified.

> >
> >
> > The problem is, I can reinstall xdm fine, and it works (I think
> > it looks different), but those files do not come back.  How do
> > I know? If I uninstall the package again, it does not tell me
> > that the directory is empty.  What package filled those
> > directories?  I used tasksel to install X Windows.

try "dpkk --force-confmiss -i xdm" This should install all config 
files.

Torsten


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