Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > This is exactly what I needed -- thanks! Great! > (I wasn't aware the postinst scripts were kept around) They are used by dpkg-reconfigure to re-configure the package. # dpkg-reconfigure foopackage That runs the postinst script for the named package in an officially supported way. You can also run the scripts manually for some special case administration fixes. And here is the full documentation with everything you would ever want to know about the internals and programming of them. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html Bob
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