On Wednesday 13 September 2006 21:38, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > I'm having nothing but grief trying to get Apache reinstalled on a > Kubuntu server I've been building. I installed Apache, then > mistakenly installed Apache2 on top of that, then tried to uninstall > both, not knowing that --reinstall was not an option with apt-get > install. Plenty of files were deleted manually, problems arose, > hilarity failed to ensue. Now when I try: > > $ sudo apt-get --reinstall install apache2 > > apt tells me that Apache2 is being installed, but there are no > /var/log files for Apache, and when I try to launch apache2 with > /etc/init.d/apache2 start, there's no output, and Apache simply > doesn't start. When I tried recently to simply install Apache (not > 2), I got the following:
Apache2 is a dummy package, which exists only for the purpose of pulling in other dependancies, so running --reinstall on it will reinstall only the few documentation files that it contains, which are required by debian packaging policy. (--reinstall doesn't automatically reinstall a package's dependancies) Find the other apache packages that it pulled in and run apt-get --reinstall install on those. The packges that dpkg listed for you: apache2-mpm-prefork, apache2-utils, apache2-common are the ones you need to reinstall. --Ken -- Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
pgpyyx0RFEThS.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
