Re: removing traces of exim
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:27:42PM +0300, 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.
>
> 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?
Just use 'dpkg --purge exim'; that'll call exim.postrm internally. In
theory you can call the postrm manually but (a) you need to know the
correct arguments and (b) doing so won't do everything you want.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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