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Re: Configuring a new system that shipped w/ Debian?



On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 18:17, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 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 <file name> usually brings up packages that contain that file.  

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