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Re: cannot install both ssh and rsh clients via depends



On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 11:39:12AM +0100, dmanye wrote:
> i have to install in a set of computers both ssh-client and rsh-client,
> along with other packages. if i install them directly on the command line i
> get them all installed without problem, but if i put them in the depends
> list of a metapackage then rsh-client is not installed.
> 
> the cause of this may be that openssh-client provides rsh-client. do you
> know how i can workaround this and get rsh-client installed using a
> metapackage?

A workaround would be to depend on rsh-client (>= 0).

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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