[Linux-disciples] Installing GNOME on a new Linux box

[Adam Kessel]

No no no.  gkdebconf is a GTK frontend to debconf.

dpkg-reconfigure is *in* package debconf.

To figure this out, go to a properly installed machine and

dlocate dpkg-reconfigure

and you'll see right away where the program is.

dpkg --configure is just part of the initial installation of a package,
not reconfiguring.  Sometimes when apt gets killed mid-stream, you need
to do dpkg --configure -a to configure all remaining unconfigured
packages.

If you want the debconf dialogue, you do:

dpkg-reconfigure -plow package-name

Of course, you can always apt-get --purge remove and apt-get install a
package to get the configuration dialogue back, but you shouldn't need
to do that.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:04:38PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Before someone nails me for not R-ing TFM, I just dug around
> a bit and found that
> 
> a) there's a separate package for debconf documentation
> b) within that documentation, it says that there is no
> program called 'debconf'
> c) one needs to run dkpg-reconfigure
> d) dpkg-reconfigure doesn't get installed with dpkg
> e) dpkg-reconfigure exists in 
> 
> gkdebconf - Helper to reconfigure packages with Debconf
> 
> I'm glad this is so blindingly clear.
> 
> Still chugging away ...
> 
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>   what they must.''
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