[vox-tech] errors with installing exim4

[Brian Lavender]

I tried to install exim4 on an old system and I got the following errors. Any
suggestions?

brian

proto:/etc# apt-get intall exim4
E: Invalid operation intall
proto:/etc# apt-get install exim4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
Suggested packages:
  eximon4 exim4-doc-html exim4-doc-info spf-tools-perl swaks
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  exim
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2030 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2683 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'exim4'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)


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