Re: installed qmail, apt-get always trying to re-install MTA
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:28:40PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently installed qmail, I removed Exim just to be sure.
> Everything is now running fine.
>
> The problem I'm having is every time I try and install another package,
> it always attempts to re-install exim.
> For example, "apt-get install apache", it will attempt to install Exim
> etc..
>
> Is there anyway of stopping this ?
Look into the "equivs" package; evidently you installed qmail from
source? The problem is that there are many packages that have the
dependency "mail-transport-agent" which exim satisfies (as would
qmail). You can use equivs to tell the system that your locally
installed qmail satisfies that dependency. BTW, there is a debian
qmail-src package, you know, but I don't belive it provides the mta
dependency, so you would still have to use equivs ...
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