Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-12-01 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had previously replaced exim4 with postfix, but because the file > system restore process only creates and over-writes files, but > doesn't > deletes unnecessary ones, the exim4 files remain. Usually, anything that provides the virtual package: mail-tra

Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-12-01 Thread Andy
Bryan Donlan wrote: On 11/30/05, T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:12:35 +, Andy wrote: Hello List, How should I go about removing files relating to the exim4 package, when aptitude doesn't think the package is installed? This is the very situation that low level comman

Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-11-30 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 11/30/05, T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:12:35 +, Andy wrote: > > > Hello List, > > > > How should I go about removing files relating to the exim4 package, when > > aptitude doesn't think the package is installed? > > This is the very situation that low level command d

Re: How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-11-30 Thread T
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:12:35 +, Andy wrote: > Hello List, > > How should I go about removing files relating to the exim4 package, when > aptitude doesn't think the package is installed? This is the very situation that low level command dpg comes into play. Try: dpkg --purge exim4 T --

How to remove exim4 when aptitude doesnt think its installed?

2005-11-29 Thread Andy
Hello List, How should I go about removing files relating to the exim4 package, when aptitude doesn't think the package is installed? Let me explain... I have restored a crashed system by first doing a Debian base install and then restoring the file system from backup over the top. The resul