[DPKG] how to change a package which is depended upon?

1997-08-07 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
Hi! I want to change my MTA from sendmail to qmail. How to do that? When I want to install qmail, dpkg says that I can't do that because sendmail is already installed as a MTA. If I want to uninstall sendmail, then it refuses because a lot of package depends on MTA. I've tried

Re: [DPKG] how to change a package which is depended upon?

1997-08-07 Thread Carey Evans
Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I want to install qmail, dpkg says that I can't do that because sendmail is already installed as a MTA. If I want to uninstall sendmail, then it refuses because a lot of package depends on MTA. I've tried --auto-deconfigure, but seems not to

Re: [DPKG] how to change a package which is depended upon?

1997-08-07 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I want to change my MTA from sendmail to qmail. How to do that? When I want to install qmail, dpkg says that I can't do that because sendmail is already installed as a MTA. If I want to uninstall sendmail, then it refuses because a lot of