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http://www.linuxquestions.org – hi this thing won't leave any ideas? Code: johnh@tux:~$ sudo -i root@tux:~# apt-get purge webmin-bind Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree      Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:   linux-headers-2.6.31-14 linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED   webmin-bind* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 1,339kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 180904 files and directories currently installed.) Removing webmin-bind ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/webmin-bind.prerm: 6: /usr/sbin/update-webmin: not found dpkg: error processing webmin-bind (--purge):  subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing:  webmin-bind E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@tux:~# (HowTos)

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