general packaging problem

[lee@sectionIV.com (Lee Bradshaw)]

Hi,

dpkg seems to be indicating I have packages installed properly, but I don't
have all the files from the packages. How should I force this package to be
reinstalled? Does anyone have a script to veryify the installed software
against the Contents file?

I've got the latest xbase installed properly according to dpkg:

  freefall ~ $ dpkg -s xbase
  Package: xbase
  Status: install ok installed
  Priority: optional
  Section: x11
  Installed-Size: 5715
  Maintainer: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
  Source: xfree86
  Version: 3.3.2.3-2

freefall ~ $ zgrep Xsession Contents-i386.gz 
etc/X11/Xsession                                             x11/xbase
etc/X11/Xsession.options                                     x11/xbase
etc/X11/wdm/Xsession                                         x11/wdm
usr/man/man5/Xsession.5.gz                                   x11/xbase
usr/man/man5/Xsession.options.5.gz                           x11/xbase

freefall ~ $ locate Xsession    # locate can't find the files that should exist
/etc/X11/Xsession

freefall ~ $ ll /usr/man/man5/Xs*
ls: /usr/man/man5/Xs*: No such file or directory

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Lee Bradshaw                 lee@sectionIV.com (preferred)
Alantro Communications       lee@alantro.com