Re: Trying to reinstall exim4 [Solved]
Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes:
> 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.
After trying the other suggestion I decided that it was time to try some
desperate measures. I forced the removal of postfix without adding exim
(dpkg --force-depends -r postfix) and then added exim4 (aptitude install
exim4). The removal of postfix temporily broke the dependencies, but
exim4 was then able to install. I had already checked that exim was
completely gone, so I don't know what was causing the problem. This was
really a test system in VirtualBox so I wasn't too worried about
breaking it.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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