Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?
"Grant Edwards" <grante@visi.com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:08:54PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> > Doing a dpkg --configure <pkgname> won't work because the
> > packages have already been configured.
>
> I just stumbled across dpkg-reconfigure (a mention of
> dpkg-reconfigure on the dpkg man page might be a good idea).
> Now, if only there was some way to figure out what package
> owned a particular file...
dpkg -S <filename> will do that, assuming the file isn't something
generated on-the-fly by a packages postinst script, like a lot of
configuration files in /etc are.
Gary
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