On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:24:22 -0500, Harry wrote in message <87bou51bp5....@newsguy.com>:
> NOTE: Already posted on unbuntu list... but due to it being something > of an urgent matter... and not seeing responses there... I'm posting > here too since the tools are all debian tools. > ----- -------- ----- --=-- ----- ------- > ----- > Due to unbridled personal bungling, I've created a nasty mess while > installing sendmail. > > I inadvertantly deleted /etc/init.d/sendmail. Well I thought I'd just > reinstall sendmail to re-acquire that file. > > So uninstalled sendmail... with aptitude but it uninstalled a few > other parts of the tools too. > > There appear to be several packages involved. > p sendmail > i sendmail-base > C sendmail-bin > i sendmail-cf > > As you see, after several attempts at uninstall/reinstall, I now have > some installed and some not. The rub comes with sendmail-bin which is > the package that contains /etc/init.d/sendmail > > Any attempt to uninstall it tells me it is not installed, any attempt > to install it ends with an error that appears to happen due to that > missing file, or the fact that sendmail-bin cannot be --configured. > > I've tried any number of ways to sneak up on it, but aptitude won't > let me. Or more accurately, I don't know how to use aptitude well > enough to resolve the problem. > > I tried apt-get with the --force-yes flag, in the hopes of forcing the > install but it didn't work... showed the same dpkg error. > ..try the nuclear dpkg -P --force-XXX options, list'em with --force-help, pile'em --force-* up till you get thru the armor, then reinstall the debris sources and exim or postfix instead of your troublemaker sendmail. -- -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110928210647.2ca52...@nb6.lan