On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:04:52PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > This is not enough because XKB files are conffiles and thus not > overwritten when reinstalling packages. There are some options > to tell dpkg to overwrite existing files, but IIRC these options > were ignored when reinstalling packages at the same version number. > I ran instead: > apt-get install -d --reinstall xlibs > dpkg --purge --force-depends xlibs > rm -rf /etc/X11/xkb > dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12_all.deb > apt-get install --reinstall xbase-clients > (The last command is to reinstall compiled/ and xkbcomp links under > /etc/X11/xkb) > But maybe there are simpler alternatives? rm -rf /etc/X11/xkb dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_*_all.deb
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