[Gllug] Debian package refusing to go

Paul Brazier pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk
Fri Jun 14 08:54:17 UTC 2002


I installed the cyrus mailserver the other day to try it out and now I'm
having problems getting rid of it.
This is what I get from dselect:

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Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cyrus21-common* cyrus21-imapd* 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1  not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 5485kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
(Reading database ... 57639 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing cyrus21-imapd ...
Purging configuration files for cyrus21-imapd ...
Removing cyrus21-common ...
Purging configuration files for cyrus21-common ...
No override present.
No override present.
Do you want me to remove the Cyrus mail and news spool, and the users
sieve scripts (y/n) [n] ? y
No override present.
No override present.
No override present.
No override present.
No override present.
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Then it just hangs until I do Ctrl-C.
Any ideas on how I resolve this? 
Is it something I'm doing wrong or a bug in the package script?

--
Paul 


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