Thanks for all the suggestions,
I've tried apt-get install resulting in:
ivan(a)silver:~$ sudo apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
My understanging of the above is that my system is clean. (FYI: I'm
running Ubuntu 5.04)
I have installed exim4, exim4-config, exim4-doc and found that anacron,
at, lsb, mailx & mutt were still installed, but postfix, postfix-lts,
ubuntu-base had been removed (as expected). So all seems fine.
Thanks for all the feedback - it looks like it was just a storm in a
teacup.
Ivan.
Matt Brown wrote:
> What version of Ubuntu are you running Ivan?
> Do you know if the package system was clean before you tried to install
> Exim?
> My suggestion on how to fix this would be to drop to the command line,
> run apt-get install (no arguments). This will handle any packages that
> are not in a clean state. Once you can run apt-get install (no
> arguments) and have it return without doing anything, then try apt-get
> install exim4 exim4-config (or use synaptic if you prefer).
