Re: xkb error

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:39:59AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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

Seems to work just fine, thanks.

Denis