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Re: Debian Commands



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On Saturday 06 November 2004 01:46 am, Chris Lale wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 06:17, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > On Friday 29 October 2004 10:13 pm, Patrick Albuquerque wrote:
> > > The `configure-debian' package gives a nice frontend to
> > > dpkg-reconfigure.
> >
> > Thank you very much for letting me know about this great package. :-)
>
> You can do the same thing in X with Synaptic. Identify the configurable
> packages usinf the "Pkg with Debconf" custom filter, and configure a
> selected package with Package -> Configure...
>

That's really good but it does require X.
Where as configure-debian is a light-weight, curses based console program 
which I can also use on a remote shell with slow speed.

Anyway, thanks for it. I wasn't aware of that fact in Synaptic. Does kpackage 
too have something similar ?


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