Re: misconfiguration

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL> wrote:
>I accidentally misconfigured the package 'snort', so dpkg is unable to
>finish the installation process. I am unable to run dpkg-reconfigure,
>because the package is not fully installed. I am also unable to run
>dpkg-preconfigure, but that has no effect because the package already has
>been configured. I forced deinstall and tried to reinstall it, but the
>debconf dialog does not appear again, and the error is still the same.
>
>How can you let dpkg forget old configuration settings for one package?

Purge it ('dpkg --purge <package>' or 'apt-get --purge remove
<package>').

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]