Re: How to remove Exim ?

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

W.D. McKinney wrote:

> Thanks Derrick,
>
> I have tried to Gordon Pape's qmail but no go due to unable to remove
> exim ?
>
>
>
> # apt-get remove --purge exim
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   exim* mutt*
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 4724kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> (Reading database ... 33135 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing mutt ...
> Purging configuration files for mutt ...
> Removing exim ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.prerm: update-inetd: command not found
> dpkg: error processing exim (--purge):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  exim
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> dpkg --purge exim
> (Reading database ... 33051 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing exim ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim.prerm: update-inetd: command not found
> dpkg: error processing exim (--purge):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  exim
Well, update-inetd is in the netbase package.  Do you have that package
installed?  If not, install it, and try your purge again.

(I see that netbase is a "Recommends" for exim; apparently that is a bug
and it should be a "Requires").