Proftpd will not uninstall, causing nothing else to install

[stevo81989]

So I have searched around the internet and no one has a usable answer. Hoping someone can help me. I am trying to uninstall proftp because it wont let me install anything else. It keeps erroring out with the following status:


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
proftpd-basic
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 40 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 1798kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 59291 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing proftpd-basic ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/proftpd-basic.postrm: 8: update-inetd: not found
dpkg: error processing proftpd-basic (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
proftpd-basic
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Any ideas??

[wojox]

Try reinstalling it:


sudo aptitude --reinstall install proftpd-basic

[stevo81989]

Wow! I cant believe after all of the research that it was that easy! Thanks so much! Also just so you know the aptitude wouldnt register so I tried:


sudo apt-get --reinstall install proftpd-basic


Just for future reference. Thanks for all your help!

[wojox]

Your welcome.