On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:55:27PM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> For some unknown reason (no doubt my fault), a past apt-get upgrade produced
> a broken mailman installation. I eventually got mailman reinstalled (while
> keeping the existing mailing lists intact I might add), but the CGI scripts
> are gone. As a result, requests for
> http://my.humble.domain.org/mailman/listinfo/ go unanswered because there
> are no CGI scripts in /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/.
> 
> I downloaded mailman-2.0.7-1 and tried
> # dpkg -i --force-overwrite mailmanblahblahblah.deb
> 
> hoping that the scripts would get reinstalled. No luck.
> 
> What's the most elegant way to get this working? I don't want to delete my
> existing lists.

Did you try 'dpkg  -r mailman; dpkg -i mailmanblahblahblah.deb' ?

Removing with '-r' the package should leave all of your config files
intact, so when you reinstall your lists should be ready to go.
Of course its a good idea to be safe and backup all of the config
files before hand.

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