apt reinstall package broken?

[Kenneth Burgener]

Kenneth Burgener wrote:
> First I did
> 
>     # apt-get remove samba samba-common
>     # apt-get clean
>     # apt-get install samba
> 
> But the samba script did not get recreated.  Which step am I missing?

A little bit more experimentation resulted in:

# apt-get --purge remove samba
# apt-get install samba

Thanks, anyway.