On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 03:30:40PM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > that of my original question. I was just looking for an advice about > solving such situation without removing anything from my system because > applying 'apt --reinstall install force3' did not restore the removed > conffiles . dpkg -i --force-confmiss (and maybe download the deb before if its's not in apts cache anymore, and be it with apt --download-only) Regards, Rene