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 command dpg comes into play. Try:

dpkg --purge exim4


This won't work. Aptitude uses the dpkg databases to determine what is
installed. Additionally, exim4's just a metapackage depending on the
actual exim4 packages. In this case, he'll probably need to reinstall
exim4, then remove it. For example:

wget 
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-base_4.50-8_i386.deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-daemon-light_4.50-8_i386.deb
dpkg --force-depends --unpack exim4-base_4.50-8_i386.deb
exim4-daemon-light_4.50-8_i386.deb
dpkg --purge exim4-base exim4-daemon-light



Thanks for your suggestion.

I tried it this morning and found that while exim4-base installed and 
purged fine, dpkg refused to install exim4-daemon-light, complaining...


exim4-daemon-light conflicts with mail-transport-agent. Postfix 
provides mail-transport-agent and is installed.


After some further reading of the dpkg man page I ended up with the 
following sequence of commands:


1) Download packages:

# wget ...
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4_4.50-8_all.deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-base_4.50-8_i386.deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-config_4.50-8_all.deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-daemon-light_4.50-8_i386.deb

2) Install packages through dpkg. Note the use of --force-conflicts and 
--force-overwrite. The later will cause files relating to the postfix 
package to be over-written. (ouch!)


# dpkg --force-depends --unpack exim4_4.50-8_all.deb
# dpkg --force-depends --unpack exim4-base_4.50-8_i386.deb
# dpkg --force-depends --unpack --force-conflicts 
exim4-config_4.50-8_all.deb
# dpkg --force-depends --unpack --force-conflicts --force-overwrite 
exim4-daemon-light_4.50-8_i386.deb


3) Purge packages:

# dpkg --purge exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light

4) Fix postfix. This should reinstall the files that were over-written 
when forcing the install of exim4-daemon-light.


# aptitude reinstall postfix

This seems to have done the trick, but does anyone see any problems with 
this process?


Thanks for pointing me in the right direction,

Andy


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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-transport-agent

is sufficient.
 
 I cannot use aptitude to remove the package's files as normal because
 
 aptitude's state has been restored from backup along with everything 
 else; it doesn't think the package is installed.

Supplying us with the command you've tried using, along with any output
would be a start.  Indeed, at this stage, I'd use dpkg:

# dpkg -P --forget-old-unavail exim4

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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



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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 dpg comes into play. Try:

 dpkg --purge exim4

This won't work. Aptitude uses the dpkg databases to determine what is
installed. Additionally, exim4's just a metapackage depending on the
actual exim4 packages. In this case, he'll probably need to reinstall
exim4, then remove it. For example:

wget 
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-base_4.50-8_i386.deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-daemon-light_4.50-8_i386.deb
dpkg --force-depends --unpack exim4-base_4.50-8_i386.deb
exim4-daemon-light_4.50-8_i386.deb
dpkg --purge exim4-base exim4-daemon-light