Re-installing apache modules on 8.04

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:39:59AM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> I've inherited an 8.04 LTS server installation. Its now fully updated,
> but there are several apache modules missing. Like rewrite and
> expires. I cannot find the correct magic words to get these back. I
> have tried apt-get install --reinstall, I have tried removing all the
> apache packages and then re-installing. I have tried manually removing
> the mods-available directory and re-installing. Interestingly, this
> provides a completely empty directory with no modules at all. The
> modules I want are in apache2.2-common from what I can tell, but for
> some reason apt does not want to really, really re-install. I am doing
> this remotely, so I need command line type thinking. Otherwise the
> system seems fine. Thx!

The magic words are 'apt-get purge', which the man page very helpfully
says:

 purge
         purge is identical to remove except that packages are
         removed and purged.

Of course. That gets everything back to hunky dory.


-- 
Hal
Code, baby, code!