Alain Papazoglou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Howto to re-configure an existing package ?
Depends. If it uses debconf, then dpkg-reconfigure <package-name> will work (this is also the easiest way to find out whether a package uses debconf or not :)); if not, then you may have luck running the post-installation script in /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package-name>.postinst, or you might end up just reinstalling it. >and howto to force interactive mode when configuring with dselect? I don't understand what you mean here. Do you mean that you have debconf set to the noninteractive frontend? If so, then 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' will give you the opportunity to change this. >I would like to re-configure dpkg-ftp package due to a proxy... >other scripts than dselect ? Again, I'm not quite sure what you mean, but you can either use dpkg directly or switch to apt-get instead (which many people swear by). There are also various apt-related frontends in development, such as console-apt and aptitude. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
