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Lirc package configuration never came up, am I stuck?

Asked by ExpressTrain

My memory could fail me, but I'm 99% sure I never saw a package configuration screen for Lirc when I installed it with Synaptic. Like all the other tools I have installed with Synaptic, I just marked Lirc for installation and applied the changes. However, lircd is not running, and the config files under /etc/lircd/ look like they were never populated (which I assume was supposed to be taken care of by dpkg). Is there a way to re-configure the package manually?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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ExpressTrain (ryanelliott2) said : 		#2

I found the command to do this. For any other beginner-level users like me, you can reconfigure an installed package by entering

% dpkg-reconfigure <pkg-name>

But I believe you need elevated privileges. In my case, I entered

% sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc

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ExpressTrain (ryanelliott2) said : 		#3

I found the command to do this. For any other beginner-level users like me, you can reconfigure an installed package by entering

% dpkg-reconfigure <pkg-name>

But I believe you need elevated privileges. In my case, I entered

% sudo dpkg-reconfigure lirc