[aptitude] reinstall configuration files

Submitted by Panayiotis Kara... on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 04:17

How to reinstall the configuration files for a package without running
the purge command? (because of dependencies)

Thanks in advance!
Panayiotis

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[aptitude] reinstall configuration files

Submitted by Wolodja Wentland on Tue, 07/27/2010 - 05:38.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 14:16 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> How to reinstall the configuration files for a package without
> running the purge command? (because of dependencies)

Run:

aptitude -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" reinstall

and (intentionally?) deleted configuration files will be installed
again.

Kind regards

Wolodja
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[aptitude] reinstall configuration files

Submitted by Panayiotis Kara... on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 05:38.

Thank you! What about existing but modified configuration files?

Regards

On 07/27/2010 02:21 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 14:16 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>
>> How to reinstall the configuration files for a package without
>> running the purge command? (because of dependencies)
>>
> Run:
>
> aptitude -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" reinstall
>
> and (intentionally?) deleted configuration files will be installed
> again.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Wolodja
>

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[aptitude] reinstall configuration files

Submitted by Sven Joachim on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 05:38.

On 2010-07-28 14:10 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:

> Thank you! What about existing but modified configuration files?

It is currently not possible to reinstall these from the packages, but
the upcoming dpkg 1.15.8 has a "--force-confask" option which will allow
that. See bug #102609¹ for details.

Sven

¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=102609

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[aptitude] reinstall configuration files

Submitted by Panayiotis Kara... on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 21:07.

Thank you both!

Regards,
Panayiotis

On 07/28/2010 03:32 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-07-28 14:10 +0200, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
>
>
>> Thank you! What about existing but modified configuration files?
>>
> It is currently not possible to reinstall these from the packages, but
> the upcoming dpkg 1.15.8 has a "--force-confask" option which will allow
> that. See bug #102609¹ for details.
>
> Sven
>
>
> ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=102609
>
>
>

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[aptitude] reinstall configuration files

Submitted by Wolodja Wentland on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 05:38.

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 15:10 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
> Thank you! What about existing but modified configuration files?

IRC it will not replace those.

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