On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 17:48, Paul Tansom wrote: > Help - now that's always a good start! > > I have managed to get my courier-imap install stuck. I have previously > installed and removed (in order to go for Cyrus) and then decided to install > again. On reinstall I have the error "ERR: > config file missing" when I use "dpkg --configure ..." or "apt-get install > ..." > or "apt-get remove ...". I have tried some options to force installation or > removal, but to no avail. > > Is there a log file I have missed looking in, or an option that give more info > about which file is missing? Basically some way of identifying the missing > file and fixing the problem! Anyone? > > Once I have it installed I can move on to the issue of the hidden dot file > directories it uses - fine for remote IMAP access, but no good when using Mutt > locally which I also do.
/var/lib/dpkg/info should have the install scripts that the courier packages are trying to run. Perhaps looking in there will be insightfull. --mike
