On 12 Jun 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > David Gaudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This does work. Since I don't know how to find the configuration > > programs for some package, I use dselect to remove the package and > > then to reinstall it. I assume there's a better way, but this does > > work. > > There's nothing too terribly wrong with that, but often a package will > tell you about it's config programs during the install process. > Failing that, or if you forget what it told you, you can also either > try reading the docs in /usr/doc/packagename, or more directly, try > "dpkg --listfiles packagename". > > -- > Rob
If you have the package on your drive, you can just dpkg -i (package). Dselect uses options to prevent it reinstalling packages that are already in... A "reinstall" options along with install;remove;purge would be nice... (but it's not real critical). dpkg -i (already there package) is good when you are dealing with "essential" packages and so on. (the manual attention is good for base packages anyway :) ) ------- BTW I'd like to say I really like the new "[S]elect" screen in dselect... Especially the new/broken packages at the top. ======= [EMAIL PROTECTED] You have new mail in /dev/null