dpkg is fowled up with some packages it can't install

[Ed Greshko]

Scott Berry wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> My name is Scott Berry.  I just came from the Fedora distro
>  To Ubuntu.    I have just followed the docs to install Exim but since I
> have some Linux experience I installed some other packages and they are
> raising kane with dpkg when Ireconfigure Exim.  To show you what I mean I
> have cut this example out of the console I was working in.
> 
> Begins Here
> root at Yellobo:~# dpkg -reconfigure exim4-config

Ahhhh....don't you want  "dpkg-reconfigure" as in no space....

> 
> dpkg: conflicting actions -e (--control) and -r (--remove)
> 
>  
> 
> Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
> 
> Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
> 
> Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
> 
> Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
> 
> Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
> 
> Type dpkg --license for copyright license and lack of warranty (GNU GPL)
> [*].   
>  
> 
> Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or
> `more' ! 
> 
> Ends Here
> 
> 
> Any help would be very much appreciated.  Thanks very much.
> 
> Scott Berry
> Email: sberry at northlc.com 
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