Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

Ulisses Alonso wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> If I try to install exim I get the following:
> 
>  exim conflicts with mail-transport-agent
>   smail provides mail-transport-agent and is installed.
> 
> I found this ok, but If I try to remove smail other packages also depends
> on it, what is the right way to upgrade?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
>         Ulisses


	IIRC, one way is to use dpkg first with:

	dpkg --purge --force-depends smail

then immediately install exim (which will install w/ no problems now that
smail is gone).  If the above doesn't work run 'dpkg --help', because one of
those options will do this for ya.


-- 
Ed


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