Cannot install zabbix

[pietjuhklaas]

Hello
I'm running ubuntu server 10.10 at this moment. I installd zabbix-agent on my server. But because of some errors i've decided to remove zabbix agent by apt-get remove zabbix-agent. To be sure the deamon stopped i rebooted the server. Now i would like te install the agent again by using the apt-get install zabbix-agent command. While installing i get the following errors:
root@web001:/etc/zabbix# apt-get install zabbix-agent
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
zabbix-agent is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up zabbix-agent (1:1.8.2-1ubuntu1) ...
Not replacing deleted config file /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
Not replacing deleted config file /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agent.conf
* Starting Zabbix agent zabbix_agentd invoke-rc.d: initscript zabbix-agent, action "start" faileand.
dpkg: error processing zabbix-agent (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
zabbix-agent
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

i've tried to remove zabbix by using apt-get remove zabbix-agent, apt-get update, apt-get autoremove.

Can someone please help me?

Regards Maarten

[kewan]

Have you tried to do:
apt-get remove --purge zabbix-agent?

--purge completely also removes a packet's configuration files, so if the problem is there, it should go away.

cheers

[pietjuhklaas]

Thank you, the installation is working fine now.