[vox-tech] Apache reinstallation failing

Richard S. Crawford rscrawford at mossroot.com
Thu Sep 14 06:24:19 PDT 2006


On Thursday 14 September 2006 05:30, Ken Bloom wrote:
> Apache2 is a dummy package, which exists only for the purpose of pulling
> in other dependancies, so running --reinstall on it will reinstall only
> the few documentation files that it contains, which are required by
> debian packaging policy. (--reinstall doesn't automatically reinstall a
> package's dependancies) Find the other apache packages that it pulled
> in and run apt-get --reinstall install on those. The packges that dpkg
> listed for you: apache2-mpm-prefork, apache2-utils, apache2-common are
> the ones you need to reinstall.

Thanks, Ken.  That's exactly what I needed!

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