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Re: Honesty about some exim mistakes



On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:16:30PM -0500, Jay Zach wrote:
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> Drake Mobius wrote:
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> > Well it of course FINALLY hit me that I should have just used
> > dpkg-reconfigure instead of apt-get remove et al. Attempts to do this
> > fail with the same messages, of course.
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> In the future, you may want to do a 'dpkg --purge' when trying to completely
> remove all traces of packages...

IIRC, you can also do an 'apt-get remove --purge' if you also want to
purge dependant programs.

-- 
Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
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	body is better.		-- Foolish Dictionary



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