Re: Can't remove sendmail with dselect/dpkg

[Miro Torrielli <mtorr@worldnet.fr>]

John Houwen wrote:
> 
> In my original installation, I incorrectly selected sendmail (among
> other things <g>) to be installed.  Upon further investigation, smail
> would appear to be the preferred mail transport device.
> 
> However, dselect/dpkg refuses to remove it, or any part of it.
> "smail not installed, cannot remove sendmail"  is part of the error
> message.  Conversely, attempting to install smail generates the same
> type errors..
> 
> Can anyone help with this?
> 
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Sounds strange. Anyway, the simplest way would probably be to
install smail, and then remove sendmail :-)