Re: xdm configuration files

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Eduardo Gargiulo said:
> Hi all.
>
> I'd removed xdm, updated sources.list and re-installed xdm. The problem
> is that 'apt-get install xdm' only install binaries, but not
> configuration files. /etc/X11/xdm is empty. How can I force apt to
> install configuration files of xdm? I'm running debian/stable.

first purge the config files(back them up first if you want)

dpkg --purge xdm

then install xdm:

apt-get install xdm

perhaps you manually removed the config files after removing xdm?
by default the package system does not remove config files when you
remove the package, you need the option purge to remove all traces
of the package.

nate