Carl Johnson <ca...@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. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org -- 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/871v07302j.fsf@oak.localnet
