dpkg problems

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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.
>
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