Re: How do I change the post-configuration interface/method for Debian packages?
Phillip Deackes <gsmh@gmx.net> writes:
PD> A while back when I did my regular apt-get upgrade on unstable, I got
PD> asked a question about the format I wanted to display post-config
PD> messages for packages. I chose gtk. Unfortuantely the last couple of
PD> times I upgraded, the gtk interface had crashed and the packages (slrn
PD> and slrnpull) are showing 'F' when I do dpkg -l slrn, for example.
PD>
PD> How on earth do I change back to a command-line option?
Run (as root) 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf', which changes the
configuration options for the debconf package. Note that debconf is a
relatively new configuration system, and only a couple packages have
been converted to use it at this point.
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