Re: How to remove Exim ?

["W.D. McKinney" <dee@akwireless.net>]

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





On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:55, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:32:12PM -0800, W.D. McKinney wrote:
> | Hello,
> | 
> | Is there a URL for how to remove exim from Woody 3.0 ?
> | I can't seem to recall what I did the last time :-)
> 
> # aptitude --purge exim
>     or
> # apt-get remove --purge exim
>    or
> # dpkg --purge exim
> 
> You probably don't want to do the above, however.  UNIX systems need
> an MTA so that, at the very least, the system can notify you of
> certain error conditions.
> 
> exim will get removed automatically if you install a different package
> which provides 'mail-transport-agent'.
> 
> HTH,
> -D