NB package screw up
I'm having a problem that I unfortunately created myself. While trying
different mail package combinations I decided it would be a good idea
to do a little cleanup after I had a full courier setup (MTA, IMAP,
POP). By cleanup, I mean I deleted all the courier related files and
folders.
Not a good idea!
I'm using Postfix as my MTA right now, and it came time to install an
IMAP deamon for it. Of course since I deleted all the courier related
stuff on my system, installing any other IMAP Deamon errors out because
of course I deleted stuff with out the package management system
knowing about it.
Here's the errors I get on an apt-get remove courier-imap:
apt-get remove courier-imap
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
courier-imap
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 418kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 18462 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing courier-imap ...
ERR: /usr/sbin/couriertcpd missing
dpkg: error processing courier-imap (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
ERR: /usr/sbin/couriertcpd missing
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
courier-imap
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
So what's my best course of action in unscrewing myself here?
-Tony
Reply to: