Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:56:15 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>Marc Haber said
>> 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
|=>ROOT<=@torres:/mnt/maindisk/home/mh # dpkg --auto-deconfigure -r smail
|dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of smail:
| mailagent depends on sendmail | smail | mail-transport-agent; however:
| Package sendmail is not installed.
| Package smail is to be removed.
| Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
| Package smail which provides mail-transport-agent is to be removed.
<snip>
|dpkg: error processing smail (--remove):
| dependency problems - not removing
|Errors were encountered while processing:
| smail
|=>ROOT<=@torres:/mnt/maindisk/home/mh #
Greetings
Marc
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