Complete removal of ProFTPD in Ubuntu

Question

ProFTPD

The problem is this ... I set up an ftp server using this example . In the end, the result did not suit me and I decided to delete the whole thing. But it was not there! Removed all dependent packages except for a package called gforge-db-postgresql . When updating the reps and package list in synaptic, the following error pops up: " E: gforge-db-postgresql: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error code 100 ". The package is now in error status. I tried to stop the server with the sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd stop command and then delete it - it does not help. How to remove it? The fact is that now this package prevents you from installing / removing any others.

Answer 1

sudo dpkg -r gforge-db-postgresql
Remove package gforge-db-postgresql...
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.4 not found.
dpkg: unable to process gforge-db-postgresql option (--remove):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error code 100
Errors occurred while processing the following packages:
gforge-db-postgresql
There were indeed none in /etc/init.d/ postgresql-8.4 was just postgresql. I did it simply: under the superuser I copied postgresql to another folder, renamed it to postgresql-8.4 and threw it back into /etc/init.d/ After the package was quietly deleted, the problem seems to have disappeared :-)