dependancy problems since Edgy upgrade

[Claudio Clemens]

2006-11-24, 10:30 +0800, Brian Walker:
> On 23/11/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:01:09 +0800
> >"Brian Walker" <bfwalker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >> >
> >>
> >> It seems clear what is wrong, but what is not clear is how to fix it.
> >Hours
> >> later, and here I am to see if anyone here has a good idea for fixing
> >it?
> >
> >Have you tried
> >
> >sudo apt-get -f install
> >
> >(just that with no arguments)
> >
> >That will attempt to fix your installation by removing/installing what is
> >needed. Sometimes you need to run that a couple of times, and install one
> >or two packages as needed, but often it will resolve the situation .
> >
> >It's also also worth trying aptitude, rather than apt-get ( aptitude is
> >smarter !)
> >
> 
> Sadly - both fail ...

Try running aptitude interactively. You can Check Broken Packages with
"B". With "Enter" in the package name you can see what is wrong. You
can try to uninstall alls exim packages and all there packages you are
wanting to upgrade. Then find in the filesystem alls exim4 files (with
find / -name "exim4"). If you delete them and then try to install exim
again, it should work.

You may probably want to backup those files :-)

HTH

Claudio

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