On 17 Feb 2002, Mike Gifford wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I like the look of exim, but am having trouble installing it. Wanted to
> try postfix to see if I could get that up and running, however I had
> trouble uninstalling exim.
>
> I figured that upgrading the version of exim might allow me to uninstall
> it, but instead it gave me more problems:
>
> # rpm -qa | grep exim
> exim-3.30-2
> exim-3.33-4
> exim-3.33-4
> exim-3.33-4
> # rpm -e exim-3.30-2
> Shutting down SMTP port (exim):/etc/rc.d/sendmail: killproc: command not
> found
>
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.97445: insserv: command not found
> error: execution of %preun scriptlet from exim-3.30-2 failed, exit
> status 127
>
> rpm -e exim-3.33-4
> error: "exim-3.33-4" specifies multiple packages
>
This is not an exim problem - it is an rpm problem. Somehow you've ended
up with three copies of the same RPM installed - I presumed you
installted the previous installation, and the force-installed the newer
one instead of using -U to upgrade.
I have no idea how to remove multiple RPM's of the same exact version.
You might want to check the documentation for rpm.
>
> How should I remove exim? I'm running RH 7.2
>
> Mike
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