apt reinstall package broken?

[Roberto Mello]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 03:28:55PM -0600, Kenneth Burgener wrote:
> I accidentally deleted the /etc/init.d/samba script.  I thought I could
> get it back by removing samba and reinstalling, but apt did not
> regenerate this file.  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> 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?

Removing/reinstalling the package just to get one missing file is
overkill. I can think of several possibly better options:

1) apt-get -d install samba-common (download only, then use ar x
samba-common_version.deb to extract it, and copy the file)

2) apt-get --reinstall install samba-common (Re-Install packages that are
already installed and at the newest version)

3) apt-get source samba-common, then copy the file. This is a much larger
download though.


The option you were looking for is --purge (as others have mentioned).
However, that would remove all your samba configurations.

-Roberto

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