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I was wondering if it's possible how to find out if I have Exim4 installed on my machine? When I tell APT-GET to remove it, it says it is not installed but I have a directory called /etc/exim4/
Is there a way to make sure I don't have Exim installed and how do I remove the folders in question under /etc?
stricom:~# whereis exim4
exim4: /etc/exim4
stricom:~# cd /etc/exim4/
stricom:/etc/exim4# ls
conf.d exim4.conf.template passwd.client update-exim4.conf.conf
stricom:/etc/exim4# apt-get remove exim4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package exim4 is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 55 not upgraded.
Probably you once had exim4 installed and then removed it. If you just remove a package and do not purge it, the configuration files of the package will be kept.
stricom:/etc/exim4# aptitude show exim4
Package: exim4
State: not installed
Version: 4.60-1
Priority: standard
Section: mail
Maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers <pkg-exim4-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 32.8k
Depends: exim4-base (>= 4.60), exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy |
exim4-daemon-custom
Description: metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) installation
metapackage depending on the essential components for running an exim
MTA (v4).
Exim (v4) is a fully featured MTA (Mail Transport Agent). It is a
drop-in replacement for sendmail/mailq/rsmtp and comes with very
extensive upstream documentation in
/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz. Information about the way Debian
has built the binary packages is obtainable in
/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz, and there is a
Debian-centered mailing list, pkg-exim4-users@lists.alioth.debian.org.
Please ask Debian-specific questions there, and only write to the
upstream exim-users mailing list if you are sure that your question is
not Debian-specific. You can find the subscription web page on
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users
Upstream URL: http://www.exim.org/
Not necessarily, exim4 is just a dummy package depending on either of the variants of exim4: the light and the heavy one.
Since diskspace is cheap, esp those marginal sizes /etc/exim4 is, it won't hurt to be better safe than sorry, and simply leave them around. If you insist, the suggested way is to actually purge the package, like "aptitude purge exim4-daemon-heavy exim4-daemon-light"
