Thanks for the reply again. On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:41 AM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:14:36 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote: > > > # apt remove sendemail > > Oops. > > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > Package 'sendemail' is not installed, so not removed > > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > > 1 not fully installed or removed. > > After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. > > Setting up sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ... > > sendmail-base is what you should be trying to remove. > And you should be using dpkg directly, not messing around with apt. > As you can see, you asked apt to remove something and it tries to > configure something instead. If you're going to use sid or a > sid lookalike, you're going to have to use the appropriate tools. > > > dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--configure): > > installed sendmail-base package post-installation script subprocess > > returned error exit status 255 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > sendmail-base > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > -------------------------------- > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > You see—you want to know what dpkg itself is doing. > Here it is: # dpkg -P sendmail-base (Reading database ... 1562548 files and directories currently installed.) Removing sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ... update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--purge): installed sendmail-base package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 255 Errors were encountered while processing: sendmail-base Any suggestions?
