On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:39:59AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:04:52PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > This is not enough because XKB files are conffiles and thus not > > overwritten when reinstalling packages. There are some options > > to tell dpkg to overwrite existing files, but IIRC these options > > were ignored when reinstalling packages at the same version number. > > I ran instead: > > apt-get install -d --reinstall xlibs > > dpkg --purge --force-depends xlibs > > rm -rf /etc/X11/xkb > > dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.3.0.dfsg.1-12_all.deb > > apt-get install --reinstall xbase-clients > > (The last command is to reinstall compiled/ and xkbcomp links under > > /etc/X11/xkb) > > But maybe there are simpler alternatives? > > rm -rf /etc/X11/xkb > dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_*_all.deb
Seems to work just fine, thanks. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
