how to reinstall the configuration files for a package without runningthe purge command ?

source : debian-user-digest # 1229.

( intentionally ? ) deleted configuration files will be installed again.

# aptitude -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confmiss" reinstall <pkg>

 
 

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