Re: dpkg reg

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

suresh@mycampus.com wrote:
>I installed qmail from the .tgz files after removing the sendmail package
>forcefully. So at present I have a my mail transport agent as qmail 
>instead of sentmail, but this fact is not known to dpkg,apt-get tools
>as I have installed from .tgz
>
>Now when I try to use apt-get install to install something, it says
>broken dependencies as thereis no mail transport agent and fails to 
>install.
>
>So now I cannot use apt-get .

Either use the qmail-src package and thus get a Debian binary package of
qmail that you can install neatly, or else try manually fetching and
installing (using 'dpkg -i') the Debian 'equivs' package and creating
yourself a dummy package either called mail-transport-agent or which
'Provides: mail-transport-agent'.

The former is probably easier, if you don't mind reinstalling qmail.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]