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Re: extract debian package default config



In <[🔎] 20090326120320.4a008a55.celejar@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:20:31 +0100
>Sylvain Viart <sylvain@easyrencontre.com> wrote:
>> Is there a simple way to get back the original package defauft config?
>>
>> Is there some command which extract this from the package or is it
>> extracted somewhere?
>There are probably better ways, but you can usually purge and reinstall.

Most of the default configuration files won't be generated so they can be 
extracted from the .deb.  dpkg is the swiss-army knife for dealing with 
debs.  I think you want dpkg -x deb_file.deb, but it's been a few months 
since I fiddled with debs directly.
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