Re: [bug-mailutils] RMAIL/movemail probs - any more ideas

[Jordi Mallach]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 08:50:07AM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
> I used the Synaptic Package Mgr. to remove the version (2.1) that I
> installed via same. So it should have nuked everything that it
> installed, should it have not? Was _that_ equivalent to your `apt-get
> remove --purge libmailutils2' suggestion?

>From what I seem to understand, you used Synaptic to remove "mailutils".

Now, the packaged version of Mailutils splits what gets installed with
"make install" into a set of packages. The mailutils package includes the
utilities and bits of documentation. However, all of these utilities need
libmailutils.so.2 to run; this library is included in the libmailutils2
debian package, which gets pulled in automatically when you install
mailutils.

IF your package manager was smart enough, it will have noticed you
installed libmailutils2 only because you wanted to install the mailutils
package. Hence, when you removed the mailutils package, it _should_ have
uninstalled the library as well, because it wasn't an explicitly requested
package.

However, to make sure, run:

dpkg -s libmailutils2 |grep Status:

If Status is "installed", then I advise you to run the apt-get command we
are discussing.

Jordi
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