thanks -- "--purge" solved my problem

kbroekho — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:57:02 +0000

I had tried the "--purge" option after the "remove" to no effect.

what worked was to do a re-install. this fails as before. then do the remove with the "--purge"
option.

thanks so much for your reply.

-Kevin

Delete the directory /etc/ejabberd/ ?

mfoss — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:03:46 +0000

kbroekho wrote:

# rm /etc/ejabberd/*
# apt-get install ejabberd
...
Not replacing deleted config file /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg
chown: cannot access `/etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing ejabberd (--configure):

Did you try to delete the directory /etc/ejabberd/, or put a fake ejabberd.cfg so dpkg doesn't complain?

I installed ejabberd 2.0.1-5 Debian unstable package with apt-get, and then completely removed:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge ejabberd

And then installed again.

...
Creating config file /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg with new version

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thanks -- "--purge" solved my problem

Delete the directory /etc/ejabberd/ ?