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Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

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Thanks for the reply again.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:41 AM David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Here it is:

# dpkg -P sendmail-base
(Reading database ... 1562548 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sendmail-base (8.15.2-11) ...
update-inetd: error: --group is only relevant with --add
dpkg: error processing package sendmail-base (--purge):
 installed sendmail-base package pre-removal script subprocess returned
error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sendmail-base

Any suggestions?

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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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