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Re: X in Woody: you gotta be fscking kidding!



Thus spake Daniel Stone (daniel@sfarc.net):

> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 02:01:25PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > * martin f krafft (madduck@madduck.net) spake thusly:
> > > * Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu> [2001.10.17 19:26:37-0500]:
> > > > Hi boys and girls,
> > > > anyone can tell me what the fuck is that dexconf crap and how do I 
> > > > get rid of it? I mean, really, which genius came up with the idea 
> > > > that I need to regenerate a perfectly working config file every time 
> > > > I update $PACKAGE? 
> > > 
> > > i think you messed up debconf. try 
> > >   dpkg-reconfigured debconf
> > 
> > dpkg-reconfigured: command not found. Neither is dpkg-reconfigure.
> > Any other suggestions?
> 
> daniel@tsubasa:~% dpkg -S dpkg-reconfigure
> debconf: /usr/share/man/man8/dpkg-reconfigure.8.gz
> debconf: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure
> 
> Hm. So you're telling me that you've answered debconf questions, yet you
> don't have debconf installed? That's pretty weird.
> 
> How'd you manage that?
> 

Looks pretty straight forward to me.  Something I do on a regular basis, 
typo.

dpkg-reconfigure not dpkg-reconfigured




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