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

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:

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 -- To

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

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