Karl & Daniel The apt-get --purge remove <Package Name, worked a treat.
Thanks for your help. Regards Nick
On 6/29/07, Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:42:20AM +0100, Nick Adie wrote: > > Hi > > > > I ran: apt-get install mediawiki [OK] > > i ran: apt-get remove --purge mediawiki [OK] > > So far, so good > > > I then in hind sight did a 'stupid' and removed the leftover folders > and files. > > Which ones? All the MediaWiki1.7 folders, can't remember exactly. > When I now run: apt-get install mediawiki > > > > It searches the repository tells me everything is OK and installs > nothing. > > > > How do I reinstall? > > According to what I can see in the repository, the "mediawiki" package > is just a metapackage. All it contains is a dependency on mediawiki1.7 > (or 1.9, depending on your release). > > The "leftovere" files you removed probably belong(ed) to mediawiki1.7 > (or mediawiki1.9). If you blow that away (apt-get --purge remove ...) > and reinstall it, you might get somewhere... > > Hope this helps > -- > Karl E. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com > ==== Today's fortune: > Booker's Law: > An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGhON/i+PVvwZpXJgRArrGAJoDfD04lo9XELl5/D/Qf7yIMOzQJgCfeIGK > ul7hyyHsWYlQrcY4E6w7Ynw= > =I/Yc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
