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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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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On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:35:23 +0100, Niklaus Kuehnis wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> 
>
> [snip] 
>
> It does and AFAIK the syntax is
>
>  	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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