Remove mailman from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server - Ask Ubuntu

i use webmin configuring server , running update , upgrade softwarepackages. uses first apt-get update , apt-get -y -f upgrade command.

yesterday try upgrade items (like bind9, etc), seemed stop upgrading. reason tries install mailman on server, can't complete it. after more 15 minutes still not installed. so, aborted upgrade/install , rebooted server , tried again. again after waiting long time, mailman won't installed @ all.

now want remove mailman server. remove it, have complete install of mailman first, says, can remove it. neither installing, neither removing seems work.

i tried command:

apt-get remove mailman -y 

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reading package lists... building dependency tree... reading state information... following packages removed:   mailman 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 remove , 12 not upgraded. 1 not installed or removed. after operation, 36.2 mb disk space freed. dpkg: error processing package mailman (--remove):  package in bad inconsistent state; should  reinstall before attempting removal errors encountered while processing:  mailman e: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (1) 

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and tried command below, won't removed:

apt-get remove --purge mailman -y 

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reading package lists... building dependency tree... reading state information... following packages removed:   mailman* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 remove , 12 not upgraded. 1 not installed or removed. after operation, 36.2 mb disk space freed. dpkg: error processing package mailman (--purge):  package in bad inconsistent state; should  reinstall before attempting removal errors encountered while processing:  mailman e: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (1) 

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can me remove mailman, please? or, if that's impossible, how can skip mailman-upgrade/install, other upgrades can done.

thanks, kevin

i able fix on virtualmin servers running:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/mailman start $ sudo apt-get upgrade