Re: How to reconfigure packages

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

In your email to me, Peter Weiss, you wrote:
> 
> Hello Debianusers,
> 
>     the question I thought about:
> 
>     Is there another way to configure .deb packages without purging/
>     reinstalling them?
> 
>     E.g. I get new printer and like to configure the apsfilter package
>     without removing it.

Go to /var/lib/dpkg/info, and find the postinst scripts. For your
apsfilter, you would run apsfilter.postinst to get it reconfigured.

Tim

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