Hi, I am having problem apt-get install even after attempting to install exim4-base. Here is the error:
ser:/home/anne# apt-get install exim4-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done exim4-base is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libpci2 libgail17 libgcj7-0 type-handling libsoup2.2-8 libwnck18 libpoppler0c2 libdirectfb-0.9-25 libeel2-2.14 libiw28 libgucharmap4 libmyspell3c2 libsnmp9 mkisofs libavahi-core4 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded. 5 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ... Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of at: at depends on mail-transport-agent; however: Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing at (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4: exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy | exim4-daemon-custom; however: Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet. Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed. dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsd-mailx: bsd-mailx depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however: Package exim4 is not configured yet. Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing bsd-mailx (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailx: mailx depends on bsd-mailx; however: Package bsd-mailx is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing mailx (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: exim4-daemon-light at exim4 bsd-mailx mailx E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ser:/home/anne# Is the new Lenny ready? If so, how do I update my os? Thanks, Pete On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:51 AM, Florian Kulzer < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:55:49 +0800, Pete Kay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to upgrade to Lenny because Lenny has the latest Lua 5.3 version, > > but after I did the upgrade, not only Lua 5.3 is not installed, but > apt-get > > starting to pop up errors every time I use it: > > [...] > > > Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ... > > Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments > > invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed. > > dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > [...] > > This is a known problem with Lenny right now: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476987 > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg00473.html > > It is fixed in Sid, but the corrected package cannot propagate to Lenny > at the moment. (This is related to perl, on which exim4-daemon-heavy > depends.) > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/exim4.html > http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=exim4 > > I think that installing the Sid version of exim4-base is the quickest > and easiest fix for Lenny users in the present situation. > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
