Beyer, Clay Wrote:
Mark Sapiro Wrote:
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This is a Debian packaging issue. If you wish to install Debian's Mailman package, you'll have to take this up with Debian.
How would I go about completely removing the current, albeit, partial install of mailman? Is there a way to do any kind of complete removal other than just searching and deleting (after an apt-get remove)? I am a bit of a Linux beginner, so I am not entirely sure how the tarball installations works, but I am betting that is simpler to figure out and will ask if I need any assistance.
apt-get purge mailman, then delete files in /var/lib/mailman, /etc/mailman, /usr/lib/mailman, /usr/share/mailman and /usr/share/doc/mailman (I think that is it). Purge should do all this for you (especially if you haven't touched any >list config).
On the other hand, that is a strange error you got, and suggests you may have another underlying issue. If you haven't >got anything else on the box, you may just want to reinstall with the latest Lenny minimal server install and work >upwards.
Using the Tarball is easy enough, though I always use the Debian package because I never have any issues with it.
Apt-get remove worked as well as find -name... I was able to remove everything associated with mailman and use apt-get install mailman, which on this occasion, worked like a charm.
I am currently experiencing a hiccup at, documentation 6.1.1 (http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node13.html). I am not understanding the aliases/aliases.db instructions. I, seemingly, successfully ran /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases but now, cannot seem to find any data/aliases file or directory.
Any ideas?
Thanks, ClayB