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Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

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On Tue 28 Aug 2018 at 09:14:36 (-0400), Luis Finotti wrote:

> # apt remove sendemail

Oops.

> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package 'sendemail' is not installed, so not removed
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ...

sendmail-base is what you should be trying to remove.
And you should be using dpkg directly, not messing around with apt.
As you can see, you asked apt to remove something and it tries to
configure something instead. If you're going to use sid or a
sid lookalike, you're going to have to use the appropriate tools.

> dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--configure):
>  installed sendmail-base package post-installation script subprocess
> returned error exit status 255
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  sendmail-base
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> --------------------------------
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You see—you want to know what dpkg itself is doing.

Cheers,
David.

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Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Luis Finotti <luis.finotti@gmail.com> - 2018-08-27 18:40 +0200
  Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-28 15:10 +0200
    Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Luis Finotti <luis.finotti@gmail.com> - 2018-08-28 15:20 +0200
      Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-28 15:50 +0200
        Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Luis Finotti <luis.finotti@gmail.com> - 2018-08-28 15:50 +0200
          Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-28 16:30 +0200
            Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Luis Finotti <luis.finotti@gmail.com> - 2018-08-28 16:50 +0200
              Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-08-29 13:00 +0200
                Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-08-29 13:50 +0200
          Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-08-28 17:00 +0200

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