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



On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 05:17:00PM -0500, 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).

Despite the name, dpkg-reconfigure is actually part of debconf, which is
probably why it isn't mentioned in dpkg(8). You can only use it to
reconfigure packages that ask questions using debconf.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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