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Re: How to upgrade from smail to exim?



Ulisses Alonso <ulisses@pusa.eleinf.uv.es> writes:

> 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?

I don't know if there is a _easy_ way with dselect. What worked for me
was to use dpkg to remove smail with --force-depends, then install
exim.

Hopefully someone has a more correct suggestion.

Scott
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Scott Hanson <shanson@shcon.com>  <shanson@debian.org>
Johmsweg 9, D-21266 Jesteburg, Germany


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