[Mailman-Users] Error updating mailman Ubuntu 14.04.3

[billy noah]

Thanks everyone.  I am pretty sure no newer version was ever installed from
source and it remains a mystery what went wrong.  Asked on askubuntu.com
and got this recommendation which did resolve the issue:

cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/
rm mailman*
apt-get clean all



On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> On 08/25/2015 04:28 PM, billy noah wrote:
> > Tried running an update today and received this message:
> >
> > Setting up mailman (1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.1) ...
> ...
> > Downgrade detected, from version 0x20112f1 to version 0x20110f0
>
>
> I'm with Steve on this. This is very wierd. The first message says you
> are setting up 2.1.16-2 and the later message says you are downgrading
> from 2.1.12-1 to 2.1.10.
>
>
> > Any ideas what I can do to remedy this?
>
>
> You can run Mailman's 'bin/update --force' manually, but I wouldn't
> recommend it, because something unknown is messed up.
>
> --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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