Re: [SLUG] How do I uninstall and reinstall a Debian package

From: Matt Miller (matt@sandmcomputers.com)
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 07:37:26 EDT


> I have a package "exim" that I believe is not
> configured or installed properly as my previous Debian
> install exim was working and using the same config
> files on this install it is not working. So I decided
> to install sendmail.
>
> But "apt-get remove exim"

Have you tried --

$ apt-get install sendmail

That action *should* ask you to remove exim since there would be a conflict.

Matt
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