Re: after apt-get install
--- Forrest Humphrey <humphreyf@student.swosu.edu> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
Hello -
> First of all, I?m a complete newbie to Linux AND Debian GNU/Linux, so
> that?s why my question is dumb. After I have installed a package with
> apt-get, for instance: ?apt-get install etherconf? How do I use the
> package? Typing etherconf in the command line does nothing for me like
> I so sheepishly expected it to.
Etherconf explicitly handled by debconf. Since this would have told you
initially whether you wanted to have your network configuration handled by
etherconf, you might have missed it. Hence as root, type:
# dpkg-reconfigure etherconf
and follow the instructions therein.
HTH,
-- Thomas Adam
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