Re: Quick basic config question



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Curt Howland wrote:

Well, I'm running into trouble with installing xserver-xorg, and I'd
like to change this variable back to "medium", but I've forgotten the
exact command, "dpkg-reconfigure debian-baseconfig" or something like
that.
[...]
So, what's the correct dpkg-reconfigure command?


To do To change the default level of questions that debconf asks you, you'll
want to do:

# dpkg-reconfigure -plow debconf

If you want just the xserver-xorg package to be a little more interactive,
you might try:

# dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium xserver-xorg

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