On 2010-03-28 10:56 +0200, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:26:22AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > aptitude remove exim4 && aptitude install postfix > > should do it (if you want to install postfix). > One MTA conflicts with the other and removes its packages.
Better use "aptitude install postfix" or "aptitude install postfix exim4-" instead. Your above sequence will remove any package that depends on an MTA which is probably not what you want. > You may, exceptionally, need to dpkg --purge the exim4 components > and there's no guarantee that there wont be something hard coded to > expect exim _somewhere_ but the above has worked for me. Any such package would be RC-buggy, but fortunately almost everyone uses just the sendmail interface which is provided by any MTA. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/878w9cq042....@turtle.gmx.de