Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

[Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>]

Freeman <hewho7@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 05:55:27PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>>   I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I
>> wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4.  I used
>> aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4, exim4-base,
>> exim4-config, and exim4-daemon-light.  It seems to accept the
>> selections, but when it actually tries to install it, it gives the error
>> message:
>> 
>> E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'exim4'. Please see
>> man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
>> 
>>   I dropped the statement 'APT::Immediate-Configure "off";' into a file
>> in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d, but it still won't install exim4.  Does anybody
>> have any idea what I am doing wrong, and what I can do to install exim?
>> I am running this on a squeeze system.
>> 
>> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> What happens when you run 
>
>   # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
>
> ?
It just reports that exim4-config is not installed.

Thanks for the suggestion.
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Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org