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Re: Restoring config files from default



--- Shaun Jackman <sdj@sfu.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'd like to restore the config files in /etc to the default versions
> for a few packages. I tried
> 	dpkg-reconfigure PACKAGE
> but it did not restore the config file.
> 
> How do I go about this?

You'd have to reinstall the packages thus:

apt-get --reinstall install <some_package>

-- Thomas Adam

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