Re: how to you reconfigure an already installed package?

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Subject: Re: how to you reconfigure an already installed package?
From: Vineet Kumar <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:04:15 -0700
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* Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org) [010802 10:40]:
> i'm surprised that dpkg doesn't have a --reconfigure option.
> 
> how are we supposed to reconfigure an already installed package?  the only
> way i can think of is to uninstall the package and reinstall it.

dpkg-reconfigure <packagename>

Vineet

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