yeap i did install and reinstall it. when i uninstalled the second time, i
'apt-get remove postfix' and then i manually deleted /etc/postfix directory.
then i reinstalled it 'apt-get install postfix', gave no error but when it
tried to start, it failed.
so i followed your directions (apt-get
Correct. You need to purge a package to remove its configuration.
Removing a package will leave the configuration files around. If you
delete them by hand, the system doesn't know about it and will assume
they're still around when you try to reinstall the package.
** Changed in: postfix (Ubuntu)
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23696995/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: DpkgTerminalLog.gz
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23696997/DpkgTerminalLog.gz
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package postfix 2.5.5-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation
script
I'm not sure what you were trying to do exactly. As far as I can tell
for the dkpg logs, you removed postfix twice, then you reinstalled it,
and at the last reinstall it wouldn't start. Did you change anything in
/etc/postfix ? Is that directory even there? Did you remove the
directory after