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Re: broken fetchmailconf



On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 07:06:53AM -0700, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> Ron & others,
> 
> At Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:08:18 -0500 Ron J. wrote,
> "So what are the results of:
> $ COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | grep fetchmail"
> 
> joule:~# COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | grep fetchmail
> ii  fetchmail                6.3.6-1etch1             SSL enabled POP3, APOP, IM
> AP mail gatherer/forwarder
> rFR fetchmailconf            6.3.6-1etch1             fetchmail configurator
> joule:~#
> 
> r = (Desired=Remove)
> F = (Status=Failed-config)
> R = (Err?=Reinst-required)
> which is roughly consistent with information from apt-get and from dselect.
> 
> Imagination suggests, 
> dpkg  --force-things  remove-reinstreq  fetchmailconf
> 
> Then install it again with dselect and purge 
> with dselect.
 
I would try

dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/fetchmailconf...

dpkg --purge fetchmailconf

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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