I'm surprised at not having gotten more feedback on the zip disk problem I posted about yesterday: seems like it should be a simple one, at least on the surface. Anyway, I'll continue to wait and think on that one. But now, another problem.
Debian Sid's package management system appears to have some major dependency on exim. I'm not sure why, but I seem to have broken apt-get in trying to rid my system of exim. You see, for sending email, I use SMTP servers, so I could see no reason for having exim on my system. When I installed Debian Sid, it automatically installed exim as well and tried to get me to configure it. I never set it up, but tried to remove it right away. I partially succeeded in removing it, only to get it back again when I installed Mutt (I use Mutt only for checking mail at certain pop servers: I never compose or try to send mail using it). I installed Webmin today, since I was reading an article on its capabilities that made it sound interesting. While looking through Webmin, I noted the add and remove users and groups features. There, I saw reference to and exim group - Debian-exim - and decided, in my attempt to get this uneeded program off my system, I should delete it. I also disabled exim from starting when I boot the system (though I didn't reboot). As a result, when I now try to apt-get something, I get the error message Need to get 0B/2654kB of archives. After unpacking 6500kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) and, of course, nothing installs. Thus, my question. What do I need to do to fix apt-get? Just recreate the group Debian-exim (not sure what propoerties/permissions this group had)? Is there a way to get exim - and any other sort of sendmail program - off my system, since I don't use them? Frankly, I think they only add a further layer of complication to a system I'm already stretched to comprehend and administer. Feedback on this new problem will be appreciated. James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
