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Reinstall of deb-Packages
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| der_tank 2007-03-17, 7:13 pm |
| Hi there,
I have a problem reinstalling pure-ftpd deb package. I had it installed in
an anapropriate version so wanted to install a different package. I first
uninstalled the first package. Then I manually deleted all leftover config
files /etc/ (/etc/pure-ftpd/* and /etc/default/pure-ftpd-common). The
problem now is that when I install the correct packages those config files
from the package are not installed anymore! But I need these files as
default config. Can anybody tell what to do?
Thx
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| Björn Steinbrink 2007-03-17, 7:13 pm |
| On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:04:33 +0100, der_tank wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a problem reinstalling pure-ftpd deb package. I had it installed
> in an anapropriate version so wanted to install a different package. I
> first uninstalled the first package. Then I manually deleted all
> leftover config files /etc/ (/etc/pure-ftpd/* and
> /etc/default/pure-ftpd-common). The problem now is that when I install
> the correct packages those config files from the package are not
> installed anymore! But I need these files as default config. Can anybody
> tell what to do?
My _guess_ would be that the package is still marked as having its
configuration files installed, and thus they are not "reinstalled". To
have configuration files removed, you can purge a package instead of
"only" removing it.
Using aptitude you can either select the package and hit _ to mark it for
purging, or run:
aptitude purge <package>
With dpkg it's:
dpkg --purge <package>
AFAIK apt-get does not support purging.
HTH
Björn
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| Niklaus Kuehnis 2007-03-17, 7:13 pm |
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| Björn Steinbrink 2007-03-17, 7:13 pm |
| On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:35:23 +0100, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
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> [snip]
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> It does and AFAIK the syntax is
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> apt-get remove --purge <package>
Right. Didn't use apt-get for quite some time and did only check the
command line help, while --purge is only listed on the man page. Thanks
for the correction 
Björn
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