[Nottingham] Broken ProFTP on Ubuntu

Simon Huggins huggie at earth.li
Tue Nov 13 13:03:34 GMT 2007


On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:15:32AM +0000, Brian Marshall wrote:
> Stupidly I deleted the proftpd (script?) from init.d and now -
> naturally - I cannot remove the package with apt-get.

> Has anyone got any advise on how to cleanly remove the package from
> this position?

That shouldn't matter.  What is the error you get with dpkg -r proftpd ?
(you might actually end up wanting dpkg --purge -r proftpd to get rid of
the bits from /etc too)

Simon

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