Eric Wong wrote: > Hi, > > I am newbie to Debian, and have a question about apt-get. > > Conside the following steps: > > 1) apt-get install apache2 > > Now apache2 is installed and working fine > > 2) rm -rf /etc/apache2 > I try to remove all configurations > > 3) dpkg -P apache2 > And then I remove apache2 > > 4) apt-get install apache2 > I install apache2 again > > It succeeds and it doesn't shows any error, but I found that > /etc/apache2 is not there, and apache2 is not working, seems that > apt-get doesn't know something(/etc/apache2) is missing and it can't > rebuild the directory. > > so my question is, how to recover from this kind of error? You know, > sometimes we may remove some directory accidentally. I know that I can > download the source code and compile it to make it working, but does > Debian or apt-get provide any way to sovle this kind of error? >
The problem is that more than one package has files in that directory. You want to do a dpkg -S /etc/apache2/* to see which ones they are. Then you want to remove and reinstall *all& of those packages. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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