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. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Free Dmitry Sklyarov - http://faircopyright.org/