Re: Debian 1.1beta problems

[David Gaudine <david@annette.concordia.ca>]

   From: Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>
   Mark Phillips <mark@maths.flinders.edu.au> writes:

   > * Is it true that dselect automatically updates to newer versions of
   > packages (if a newer version appears in the directory structure and
   > you run dselect)?  What do you do if you want to reinstall the same
   > version of a package - can you do it? (for example you might want to
   > re - set it up)

This does work.  Since I don't know how to find the configuration programs
for some package, I use dselect to remove the package and then to reinstall it.
I assume there's a better way, but this does work.