Re: apt-get question

[John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>]

Andrew Sackville-West writes:
> apt probably doesn't realise that you previously removed apache2 and so
> doesn't know to reinstall the confs. just a guess there.

'apt-get remove apache2' removes the package but not the configuration
files.  Thus when he later did 'apt-get install apache2' apt assumed that
he had changed the configuration by removing the files for good reason and
declined to reverse his changes.  'apt-get remove --purge apache2' would
have deleted all trace of the package.


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John Hasler