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Debian User

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Mar 23, 2003, 1:20:12 PM3/23/03
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Hi,

I just installed the vanilla install of Debian. I'd
like to reconfigure several things, but when I do
dpkg-reconfigure, I get "dpkg-reconfigure: command not
found". Is this still how I'm supposed to reconfigure
packages? (I don't see a --reconfigure option for
dpkg.)

thanks
Melissa

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Greg Norris

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Mar 23, 2003, 2:00:21 PM3/23/03
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You can search for packages which contain specified files at
"http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages". In this case, it would have
told you that dpkg-reconfigure is part of the debconf package.

Colin Watson

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Mar 23, 2003, 2:20:11 PM3/23/03
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On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:57:12AM -0800, Debian User wrote:
> I just installed the vanilla install of Debian. I'd like to
> reconfigure several things, but when I do dpkg-reconfigure, I get
> "dpkg-reconfigure: command not found". Is this still how I'm supposed
> to reconfigure packages?

It is how you're supposed to reconfigure packages that use debconf
(recognize them by the dialog box you get when they're installed), which
is by no means all of them. Many packages simply have configuration
files: this isn't an obsolete thing that's going away, it's just that
debconf is sometimes more appropriate. You need to be familiar with both
approaches.

dpkg-reconfigure is in /usr/sbin. It's possible that that isn't on your
$PATH.

Cheers,

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Tony

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Mar 23, 2003, 7:56:46 PM3/23/03
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On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:00:21 +0100, Greg Norris <haph...@kc.rr.com> wrote:
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> "http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages". In this case, it would have
> told you that dpkg-reconfigure is part of the debconf package.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:57:12AM -0800, Debian User wrote:
>> Hi,
>>=20

>> I just installed the vanilla install of Debian. I'd
>> like to reconfigure several things, but when I do
>> dpkg-reconfigure, I get "dpkg-reconfigure: command not
>> found". Is this still how I'm supposed to reconfigure
>> packages? (I don't see a --reconfigure option for
>> dpkg.)
>>=20
>> thanks
>> Melissa
>

Are you doing this as root#?

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