On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:27:42PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I installed postfix in place of exim but forgot to use the purge option > when removing exim. > > I want to remove all files that were installed by the exim package. > > My question is how would one go about this. Of course, I could just > delete the files, (assuming I could determine what they were) but wouldn't > exim still be displayed when I run dpkg -l. > > I notice that there is a script exim.postrm in the directory /var/lib/dpkg/info. > Would it be enough to run this script manually?
Just use 'dpkg --purge exim'; that'll call exim.postrm internally. In theory you can call the postrm manually but (a) you need to know the correct arguments and (b) doing so won't do everything you want. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
