On Tue,12.May.09, 09:23:50, Angelin Lalev wrote: > One of my xen domains just crashed and left the ext3 filesystem of one > of my DomU debian installations in a horrible state. Subsequent fsck > deleted a bunch of files. > Now I want to fix a package or two by reinstalling the configurations. > > aptitude purge package && aptitude install package > > howewer seems to be the wrong approach. I got 'not reinstalling deleted > file' etc. > > Is there a way to do it painlessly and automatically with aptitude ? I think you need 'dpkg -i --force-confmiss <package-file.deb>'. If you didn't run 'aptitude clean' lately you should find the .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives/ Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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