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Re: tinyproxy_1.4.3-1_i386.deb



This one time, at band camp, Terry Smith said:
> A friend of mine is having problems with the install of a Debian package 
> called tinyproxy on a Woody machine.
> 
> It appears to install fine but two files are missing when installed:
>   /etc/init.d/tinyproxy
>   /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf
> 
> They are listed with dpkg -L and also present in the deb file.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has seen this kind of problem before or knows 
> of this particular issue.
"Missing" is a valid state for a configuration file, so if this package
was installed, and those onf files removed, dpkg will rmember this.  You
can try installing with dpkg -i --force-confmiss /path/to/deb .  That
will install all conffiles, even if it thinks they are supposed to be
missing.  Alternately, you can extract them and copy over, but I think
the first way is cleaner.
HTH,
Steve
-- 
Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus?
Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe.

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