From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1C0BHx-0008N7-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:51:02 -0400 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (ldavis@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i7Q3p1Zg036157 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:51:01 GMT (envelope-from ldavis@shellworld.net) Received: from localhost (ldavis@localhost) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id i7Q3p1To036154 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:51:01 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: server2.shellworld.net: ldavis owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 22:51:01 -0500 (CDT) From: Luke Davis To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20040825232209.GA26182@lrxms.net> Organization: "Tacticus Communications, Inc." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: dpkg problems X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 03:51:02 -0000 Maybe you got a package from unstable? If so, and you've fixed sources.list to stable, try a downgrade. On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Well, here are a couple more suggestions; don't know that they work but i > hate the thought of you having to completely reinstall!!1 > you could try uninstalling exim completely and then seeing if you can > reinstall exim3. Either dpkg -P exim or apt-get remove exim could be tried; > you also could try apt-get remove exmi* (note the asterisk after the word > exim) to see if it will just take everything connected with exim. The only > thing is: i don't know how you got it to install exim4, so I don't know if > when you try to install again it will try to install exim4 on you again. You > could try these steps and see how far you get though. Another possibility is > to use aptitude instead of apt-get; I know that worked one time when apt-=get > didn't but I haven't read up on it yet so don't use it much. > Hope something here helps. > > >