Re: package purging and app configuration

2003-11-02 Thread Haines Brown
> Wouldn't you also need to delete ~/.dingrc? Jerome, you are quite right. I had relied on the list file and didn't realize that it omitted configuration files. Once I got the clue, sure enough, the file was there, and the script problem was obvious and easily fixed. Thanks. Haines -- To UNSU

Re: package purging and app configuration

2003-11-02 Thread Haines Brown
> > Interesting, but I'm still stuck. I didn't see now to change the start > > up script to get around the problem. So I did the following in an > > attempt to start with a clean slate: > >=20 > ># aptitude purge ding > >deleted /var/...archives/ding > >check in /var/lib/dpkg/info to ma

Re: package purging and app configuration

2003-11-02 Thread Jerome R. Acks
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:02:34AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ding.list is a file that is part of the ding .deb > > package. > > > > if you look at it, it will tell you where all the files that > > ding installed are. > > > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ding.postinst is the post-ins

Re: package purging and app configuration

2003-11-02 Thread Haines Brown
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ding.list is a file that is part of the ding .deb > package. > > if you look at it, it will tell you where all the files that > ding installed are. > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ding.postinst is the post-install script > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ding.postrm is the post-remove scirpt > ...

Re: package purging and app configuration

2003-11-02 Thread kmark+debian
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Haines Brown wrote: > > I installed a dict front end (ding) and somehow inadvertently > configured it for "" as background color. I can't figure out in the > startup script how to correct that, and so decided simply to reinstall > ding. > > I ran: aptitude purge ding, and the