apt-get question

["Eric Wong" <mre0979@gmail.com>]

Hi,

 

I am newbie to Debian, and have a question about apt-get.

 

Conside the following steps:

 

1) apt-get install apache2

 

Now apache2 is installed and working fine

 

2) rm -rf /etc/apache2

I try to remove all configurations

 

3) dpkg -P apache2

And then I remove apache2

 

4) apt-get install apache2

I install apache2 again

 

It succeeds and it doesn't shows any error, but I found that /etc/apache2 is not there, and apache2 is not working, seems that apt-get doesn't know something(/etc/apache2) is missing and it can't rebuild the directory.

 

so my question is, how to recover from this kind of error? You know, sometimes we may remove some directory accidentally. I know that I can download the source code and compile it to make it working, but does Debian or apt-get provide any way to sovle this kind of error?

 

Thanks a lot!

KC Eric