Comments on: Fix Debian Exim4 Broken By Upgrade

By: jep

jep — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:55:16 +0000

…and moreover: the “purge” word has TWO hyphen characters before it. This posting place removes one of them!

apt-get remove --purge exim4-config

By: jep

jep — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:51:06 +0000

I had to purge exim4-config by doing this:

apt-get remove –purge exim4-config

Order between “remove” and “–purge” is relevant.

By: Ray Burgemeestre

Ray Burgemeestre — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:37:28 +0000

Had the same error due to changes made or not accepting the new configuration files the upgrade requested..
Removing exim4 with “apt-get –purge remove exim4” didn’t work for me, the exim4-config package kept giving “malformed macro …” error.
Maybe –force would have worked as well, though I used “apt-get –purge remove exim4-config” to remove it (all the packages will be removed via dependencies) and than reinstalled using “apt-get install exim4”