<div>Greetings all, A series of minor errors were reported during a dist upgrade (took forever too, huh? Broadband connection and 14 hours later still upgrading ...) end result is a good functioning desktop, but errors in several areas, notably exim4, tripwire and rkhunter. Mutt also hosed, but it always is due to other issues with configuration ... Here is what I get on attempting to configure exim4 which - according to apt-get and synaptic - is installed. I had removed exim4, then reinstalled via apt-get, not wishing to use synaptic which - last time I tried with ssmtp and exim, resulted in both packages being broken. </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">root@brian-desktop:~# apt-get install exim4 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: exim4 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 7 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 1638B of archives. After unpacking 32.8kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com">http://archive.ubuntu.com</a> edgy/main exim4 4.62-2 [1638B] Fetched 1638B in 0s (1947B/s) Selecting previously deselected package exim4. (Reading database ... 196694 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking exim4 (from .../archives/exim4_4.62-2_all.deb) ... Setting up exim4-config (4.62-2) ... 2006-11-23 14:53:39 Exim configuration error in line 151 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp: main option "acl_whitelist_local_deny" unknown Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp not installing /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-base: exim4-base depends on exim4-config (>= 4.30) | exim4-config-2; however: Package exim4-config is not configured yet. Package exim4-config-2 is not installed. Package exim4-config which provides exim4-config-2 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing exim4-base (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-daemon-heavy: exim4-daemon-heavy depends on exim4-base (>= 4.62); however: Package exim4-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-heavy (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4: exim4 depends on exim4-base (>= 4.62); however: Package exim4-base is not configured yet. exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy | exim4-daemon-custom; however: Package exim4-daemon-light is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not configured yet. Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed. dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tripwire: tripwire depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however: Package exim4 is not configured yet. Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package ssmtp which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing tripwire (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mutt: mutt depends on postfix | mail-transport-agent; however: Package postfix is not installed. Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package ssmtp which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing mutt (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of muttprofile: muttprofile depends on mutt; however: Package mutt is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing muttprofile (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rkhunter: rkhunter depends on exim4 | postfix | sendmail | mail-transport-agent; however: Package exim4 is not configured yet. Package postfix is not installed. Package sendmail is not installed. Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package ssmtp which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing rkhunter (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: exim4-config exim4-base exim4-daemon-heavy exim4 tripwire mutt muttprofile rkhunter E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) </blockquote> 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? All the best to all Brian