On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 02:55:48PM +0000, Kaa " wrote:
> install mutt' and guess what? apt refused to download mutt because it
> depends on a "mail-transfer-agent" and such a beast was not to be found in
> dpkg's database. I've tried persuading apt in a variety of ways, but it
It's a virtual package which all mail transfer agents provide. You can
tell dpkg that it's installed by downloading the equivs package and
using that to build a mail-transfer-agent package and installing that
(or just make an empty package by hand).
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Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
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