Re: debian - how to reinstall a package

Hiddensoul (Mark Clohesy) <hiddensoul@twistedsouls.com> wrote:

Dont know if this is what you need but maybe an apt-get purge <package> will give you a fresh starting point

Indeed it should. Configuration files are not removed by a remove command; you need to use purge instead, and I strongly suspect --reinstall performs a "remove" rather than a "purge".