Re: more post-upgrade weirdness: debconf

2001-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
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 ' command. Actually, he's probably looking for the dpkg-reconfigure command. 'dpkg --config

Re: more post-upgrade weirdness: debconf

2001-02-03 Thread David B . Harris
To quote Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # 1) when I run command debconf as root (or non), I get command not found There is no 'debconf' command. The "debconf" package provides various facilities to packages, but no 'debconf' command. # 2) when I run man debconf, the system grinds for a bit, sp

Re: more post-upgrade weirdness: debconf

2001-02-03 Thread Joey Hess
Glenn Becker wrote: > 1) when I run command debconf as root (or non), I get command not found > 2) when I run man debconf, the system grinds for a bit, spits out some of > those 'dangling symlink' man page warnings, and finally says there is no > man page for debconf. HOWEVER > > 3) when I apt-get

more post-upgrade weirdness: debconf

2001-02-03 Thread Glenn Becker
All, In addition to (but perhaps tied to?) my window manager problems, there appears to be something ... odd about the debconf package (or I just don't know what I'm trying to do with it). 1) when I run command debconf as root (or non), I get command not found 2) when I run man debconf, the syst