Re: package purging and app configuration

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

> > Interesting, but I'm still stuck. I didn't see now to change the start
> > up script to get around the problem. So I did the following in an
> > attempt to start with a clean slate:
> >=20
> >    # aptitude purge ding
> >    deleted /var/...archives/ding
> >    check in /var/lib/dpkg/info to make sure there were no ding files
> >    # aptitude update
> >    # aptitude install ding
> 
> Wouldn't you also need to delete ~/.dingrc?

More than that, I was able to correct the problem in that script and
I'm back on the road. 

/var/lib/dpkg/info/ding.list did not mention this file, and so I
didn't think to look for it there.

Thanks

Haines