Re: A ( simple ? ) question about configuration
Cedric Bapst wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to use Debian Linux for two weeks and I have a small problem.
>How can we reconfigure a package? For example I've installed xbase and I
>would like to reconfigure it through the dpkg command. I tried with:
>
> dpkg --configure xbase
>
>But it said to me that the status is installed. What's the right way to
>do that?
The general answer to this question is look at the postinst script for the
package, which is stored at /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.postinst and
see what it does. Run the relevant commands `by hand'.
The relevant command for xbase is
/usr/sbin/xbase-configure
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