Re: Trying to reinstall exim4
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, 08 May 2011 20:45:00 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
>
>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>>
>>> What *exact* command did you run?
>>
>> I used the curses interface to aptitude, so I just told it to install
>> exim4 and remove postfix. I just tried a command line equivalent as
>> follows:
>>
>> # aptitude install postfix- exim4+ exim4-base+ exim4-config+
>> exim4-daemon-light+
>
> (...)
>
> Errr, just a *very wild guess*, but have you tried by directly install
> Exim4 and let the package manager handles the situation by itself? I say
> this because the system requires at least one mail agent (or akin MDA) to
> be present so maybe the error is being generated from that.
>
> Anyway, IIRC, as soon as you select the Exim package to be installed,
> Postfix is automatically marked to be removed (and viceversa) :-)
I hadn't tried it because I hadn't really trusted it, but you are
absolutely right. It automatically tries to do exactly what I specified
manually, but unfortunately the results and error are exactly the same.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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