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RE: 'irradicating' a package?



Its failing because you need somekind of MTA. You could
install say sendmail or postfix, that will remove the "exim"
package you have installed because they confict, then you
reinstall the official exim package.
>>dpkg --purge package
>>
>>If this is failing, give us more info.
>
> argus:/etc/exim# dpkg --purge exim
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of exim:
> at depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
>  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>  Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is to be
>  removed.
> mailx depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
>  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>  Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is to be
>  removed.
> dpkg: error processing exim (--purge):
> dependency problems - not removing
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> exim
> argus:/etc/exim#
>
>
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