Mike Lake wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:13:26PM +1100, getadog wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:06:24PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > dpkg --purge --force-depends zmailer-ssl && apt-get install postfix (or > > > exim, or whatever). > > > > apt-get install zmailer-ssl- postfix (or exim, or whatever) > > But as I mentioned the system already has exim as its MTA. zmailer provides > the same thing, an MTA. I would have thought that when I installed logrotate > it would need a mailer (OK) and it wanted mailx and that needed an MTA. > The packaging system should have realised it had exim on and so not > insisted on installing zmailer. > > What I can't follow is that on this Debian system here at work (Pentium) and > on my Intel 486 at home zmailer is not required but on the Alpha Debian, as > you can see from the apt-get lines mailx depends on zmailer. Same Debian > release.
Just having a look at the current mailx debs... Stable has version 1:8.1.1-11 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0), smail | mail-transport-agent Unstable & Testing have version 1:8.1.2-0.20010922cvs-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0), mail-transport-agent, base-files (>= 2.2.0) These dependencies look reasonable to me. If you don't have one of these two versions, maybe you could try upgrading mailx before attempting to remove zmailer? Matthew -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
