# New error: FAILED: systemctl link conf/mailinabox.service

**URL:** <https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/new-error-failed-systemctl-link-conf-mailinabox-service/4626>\
**Category:** Help with Setup/Upgrade\
**Created:** [February 18, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/new-error-failed-systemctl-link-conf-mailinabox-service/4626 "2019-02-18T17:34:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![marcosmatas](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@marcosmatas](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/marcosmatas)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/new-error-failed-systemctl-link-conf-mailinabox-service/4626/1 "2019-02-18T17:34:30Z")

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I have a lot of troubles in my update to ubunty 18.04.

I am tryin to reinstall mail-in-a-box and i have this error.

```
Installing Nginx (web server)...
Installing Roundcube (webmail)...
Installing Nextcloud (contacts/calendar)...
Nextcloud is already latest version
Installing Z-Push (Exchange/ActiveSync server)...
Installing Mail-in-a-Box system management daemon...

FAILED: systemctl link conf/mailinabox.service
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Failed to link unit: File /etc/systemd/system/mailinabox.service already exists and is a symlink to /root/mailinabox/conf/mailinabox.service.
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Anybody knows how to bypass it? I’m very confussed with this

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**Author:** ![brschroeder](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@brschroeder](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/brschroeder)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/new-error-failed-systemctl-link-conf-mailinabox-service/4626/2 "2019-02-19T02:59:08Z")

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A link is trying to be created to /root/mailinabox/conf/mailinabox.service and it is complaining because this link already exists. For now you can rm the link (not the file in the conf directory) with  
`rm -f /etc/systemd/system/mailinabox.service`

**Devs:** There should probably be a check (or just force it with -f) before running  
`systemctl link anything`

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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4d0933d13c456b7e57f296aa6cc344525b6f0c70.png) [@system](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/new-error-failed-systemctl-link-conf-mailinabox-service/4626/3 "2019-02-26T02:59:10Z")

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