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Monday, March 6, 2017

#debian channel featuring psychoticwarrior, Epakai, dpkg, piklu, sim590, hiexpo,

piklu 2017-03-06 15:46:47
I have a very strange issue happnening, I installed xrdp, but than I had to reinstall it, since than it is not creating the service files in /etc/init.d - not sure what is going on
psychoticwarrior 2017-03-06 15:48:33
did u try to run updatedb
Epakai 2017-03-06 15:57:57
!confmiss
dpkg 2017-03-06 15:57:57
You have to especially tell the packaging system to reinstall config files because when they are gone, it is assumed that you want them to stay deleted. "aptitude -o DPkg::Options::='--force-confmiss' reinstall $packagename" will restore them (man dpkg for details). If the package uses for config file management, ask me about .
Epakai 2017-03-06 15:59:14
piklu: ^
hiexpo 2017-03-06 16:05:05
psychoticwarrior, purge it thn reinstall it
piklu 2017-03-06 16:06:29
Epakai : Thanks tons
sim590 2017-03-06 16:37:32
How do I show packages depending on a target package? The equivalent of `aptitude why ` with apt-*.
sim590 2017-03-06 16:40:27
just found apt-cache rdepends...