How to Install and Uninstall exim4-config Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "exim4-config" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install exim4-config on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                exim4-config
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "exim4-config" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall exim4-config on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                exim4-config
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the exim4-config package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: exim4-config
Architecture: all
Version: 4.86.2-2ubuntu2.6
Priority: extra
Section: mail
Source: exim4
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 971
Provides: exim4-config-2
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, adduser
Conflicts: courier-mta, esmtp-run, exim, exim-tls, exim4-config, exim4-config-2, hula-mta, masqmail, mta-dummy, nullmailer, postfix, sendmail-bin, smail, ssmtp, xmail, zmailer
Breaks: exim4-daemon-heavy (<< 4.86.2), exim4-daemon-light (<< 4.86.2)
Filename: pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-config_4.86.2-2ubuntu2.6_all.deb
Size: 297844
MD5sum: b8a801ab3ddb8dc61a65d1ba9cd42fbd
SHA1: ce8ac7527762b88ca96e531a7b3f8d7c0dbff345
SHA256: 88b9fd99df7c2fc4633738eb3c051c3a933057664bbf48e2b5c6ea0dc6025fba
SHA512: 263cefb9733591b0ac3082e04eb7cd68806bce098aab26ac11235b197653395b434c78eda3e46fa2a900e6b952406ca53c246dfec581c474f8a24712d939a7a9
Homepage: http://www.exim.org/
Description-en: configuration for the Exim MTA (v4)
Exim (v4) is a mail transport agent. exim4-config provides the configuration
for the exim4 daemon packages. The configuration framework has been split
off the main package to allow sites to replace the configuration scheme
with their own without having to change the actual exim4 packages.
.
Sites with special configuration needs (having a lot of identically
configured machines for example) can use this to distribute their own
custom configuration via the packaging system, using the magic
available with dpkg's conffile handling, without having to do local
changes on all of these machines.
.
The Debian exim4 packages have their own web page,
http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4. There is also a Debian-specific
FAQ list. Information about the way the Debian packages are
configured can be found in
/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz, which additionally contains
information about the way the Debian binary packages are built. The
very extensive upstream documentation is shipped in
/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz. To repeat the debconf-driven
configuration process in a standard setup, invoke dpkg-reconfigure
exim4-config. There is a Debian-centered mailing list,
[email protected]. 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
Description-md5: 32395c972fcf7f5014c06bce8ee1c59a
Supported: 5y

Package: exim4-config
Priority: extra
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 970
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Exim4 Maintainers
Architecture: all
Source: exim4
Version: 4.86.2-2ubuntu2
Provides: exim4-config-2
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, adduser
Conflicts: courier-mta, esmtp-run, exim, exim-tls, exim4-config, exim4-config-2, hula-mta, masqmail, mta-dummy, nullmailer, postfix, sendmail-bin, smail, ssmtp, xmail, zmailer
Breaks: exim4-daemon-heavy (<< 4.86.2), exim4-daemon-light (<< 4.86.2)
Filename: pool/main/e/exim4/exim4-config_4.86.2-2ubuntu2_all.deb
Size: 297094
MD5sum: a8890bc29600b7d7a292d17471681b9d
SHA1: 7b44c12a5ef0fcd2235258aa4cc65214490aec68
SHA256: f0656985748035317ecd867ed9c41bdaab8ede2387d7410e1d8e101140e6c544
Description-en: configuration for the Exim MTA (v4)
Exim (v4) is a mail transport agent. exim4-config provides the configuration
for the exim4 daemon packages. The configuration framework has been split
off the main package to allow sites to replace the configuration scheme
with their own without having to change the actual exim4 packages.
.
Sites with special configuration needs (having a lot of identically
configured machines for example) can use this to distribute their own
custom configuration via the packaging system, using the magic
available with dpkg's conffile handling, without having to do local
changes on all of these machines.
.
The Debian exim4 packages have their own web page,
http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4. There is also a Debian-specific
FAQ list. Information about the way the Debian packages are
configured can be found in
/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz, which additionally contains
information about the way the Debian binary packages are built. The
very extensive upstream documentation is shipped in
/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz. To repeat the debconf-driven
configuration process in a standard setup, invoke dpkg-reconfigure
exim4-config. There is a Debian-centered mailing list,
[email protected]. 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
Description-md5: 32395c972fcf7f5014c06bce8ee1c59a
Homepage: http://www.exim.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y