David B. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you're trying to reconfigure a package(which will probably use >services provided by the "debconf" package), you're probably looking for >the 'dpkg --configure <package>' command.
Actually, he's probably looking for the dpkg-reconfigure command. 'dpkg --configure' won't do anything after the package has been installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo dpkg --configure debconf Password: dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): package debconf is already installed and configured Errors were encountered while processing: debconf The '--configure' refers to the part of the package installation process after the package has been unpacked - it updates any conffiles and calls the package's post-installation script. (Section 6 of the Packaging Manual has all the gory details of how package installation works if you're interested.) debconf was written well after this process was designed, and its configuration interface typically bolts on more or less before unpacking so that questions can be asked at the beginning of an upgrade rather than interrupting long upgrades part-way through. Sometimes questions are asked in the configuration phase as well, but usually they shouldn't be. dpkg-reconfigure allows you to independently have the questions asked again. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
