Re: removing traces of exim

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

amnesiac@koti.luukku.com (<amnesiac@koti.luukku.com>) wrote:

> I installed postfix in place of exim but forgot to use the purge
> option when removing exim.
> 
> I want to remove all files that were installed by the exim package.
> 
> My question is how would one go about this. Of course, I could just
> delete the files, (assuming I could determine what they were) but
> wouldn't exim still be displayed when I run dpkg -l.

Deleting the files manually is not a good idea. The package management
would still think they were there, if you reinstall exim someday it
will not reinstall the config files.

> I notice that there is a script exim.postrm in the directory
> /var/lib/dpkg/info. Would it be enough to run this script manually?

Try
dpkg --purge exim
instead.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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