How to refresh package in Debian

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański]

On 18 March 2010 10:16, Tom Ellis <tom-lists-clug2 at jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:03:30AM +0000, Wawrzyniec Niewodnicza??ski wrote:
>> By coincided I overwrote /etc/init.d/cups on my computer (usage of '>'
>> rather than '>>' in cat) and I try to reinstall the file. I tried
>> reinstall the whole package (apt-get install cups --reinstall) but it
>> doesn't reinstall a missing file.

I see there were probably some delay in sending this mail.

Finally I found that following to reinstall missing files from Debian package.

dpkg --install --force-confmiss package-x.y.deb

Thanks for all suggestion,
Wawrzek
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