Re: Debian 1.1beta problems
On 12 Jun 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> David Gaudine <david@annette.concordia.ca> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> There's nothing too terribly wrong with that, but often a package will
> tell you about it's config programs during the install process.
> Failing that, or if you forget what it told you, you can also either
> try reading the docs in /usr/doc/packagename, or more directly, try
> "dpkg --listfiles packagename".
>
> --
> Rob
If you have the package on your drive, you can just dpkg -i (package).
Dselect uses options to prevent it reinstalling packages that are already
in... A "reinstall" options along with install;remove;purge would be nice...
(but it's not real critical).
dpkg -i (already there package) is good when you are dealing with
"essential" packages and so on. (the manual attention is good for base
packages anyway :) )
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BTW I'd like to say I really like the new "[S]elect" screen in dselect...
Especially the new/broken packages at the top.
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