Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present
Marc Haber said
> On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:56:37 -0500, you wrote:
> >The necessary package for telling Debian that you've got a locally
> >built mail-transport-agent installed is "equivs".
>
> Thanks.
>
> >The "equivs" package only seems to be available from http://www.debian.org
> >and not from any mirror sites. Or at least that was what seemed to be the
> >case when I was doing all of this....
>
> My local mirror had the package. Here is what I did
> [...]
> So I seem to be in a circular situation: I can't install equiv package
> just made because I have smail installed. I can't uninstall smail
> because I have numerous packages that require mail-transport-agent.
>
> How do I get out of this circle?
>
How about this:
dpkg --auto-deconfigure -r smail
dpkg -i equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb
dpkg --pending --configure
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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