Hi all
I have had exim installed in the past and it probably was partially removed.
I want to remove all traces of it. Status is indicated as below.
$ dpkg -L exim
/etc/exim
/etc/init.d/exim
/etc/cron.daily/exim
/etc/cron.d/exim
/etc/ppp
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim
/etc/email-addresses
$ sudo apt-get --no-act --purge remove exim
Package exim is not installed, so not removed
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep exim
exim deinstall
A man of pkg says:
PACKAGE SELECTION STATES
deinstall
The package is selected for deinstallation (i.e. we want to
remove all files, except configuration files).
So how do I remove the files listed by dpkg and have the package manager know that it
is now not installed? I know there is --force but I'm not sure if that's the right
thing for here. The package isn't broken.
Mike
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