Mark, Thank you for this. Believe me force is something that has come to mind. Pending a response from John (above) concerning doing them in sequence now that I'm already half done, I will attempt this tomorrow.
Best Wishes! Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org -----Original Message----- From: Mark L. Kahnt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 7:23 PM To: Debian-User@Lists. Debian. Org Subject: RE: Email (Solved)...next...POP3 setup On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 21:18, Michael Olds wrote: > Thanks Bob, I'll look into popa3d...I was going to go with an imap solution > but I had second thoughts about having people's files on my server...I am > only going to have a half dozen users and none of them need me for roaming > access, so I think POP will do for me... > > ...now maybe you can get me out of another kettle of soup I got myself into: > In trying to get a decent file manager, I listened to the advice of someone > who recommended gentoo. It looks great, but it isn't in the stable Woody. So > I downloaded and started to install it using dpkg --install .deb, but > immediately ran into dependancy problems. Then progressing further, I > actually think I managed to download all the dependancies needed, but I'm > hung up in a catch 22: x depends on y so x will not be configured; y depends > on x so y will not be configured. Now I have a half dozen packages sitting > there unconfigured that won't configure and I cant sit or get off the can. I > feel I should just get rid of the lot, but half of them are upgrades of > current packages, and instead of removing the unconfigured new package, > dpkg --remove xxx tries to remove the original...total madness at this > point...what do I do just sit around with half loaded packages and wait for > Debian to catch up? > > Best Wishes! > Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org Dontchya just luv when that happens? :) dpkg -i --force-configure-any <package file name> This steps in and configures the unpacked but unconfigured packages as well as this package, so that when you are in this situation, all end up installed. HTH > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 5:17 PM > To: Debian-User@Lists. Debian. Org > Subject: Re: Email (Solved)...next...POP3 setup > > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 11:49:31AM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: > > Carel, > > > > OK, I got it. > > > > It was the permissions on the K-mail client program itself. It was root > root > > for userme and root is set to receive no mail. > > > > ...now...on to POP3 configuration...I am using qpopper. I see the > > qpopper.conf in /etc/ but the package installed with no configuration > dialog > > and the instructions say to configure using ./configure which I assume is > > from the install directory, only there is no install directory... > > Those instructions are from the original .tar.gz source. ./configure > is used to create the Makefile prior to compiling the program. The > source documentation is usually (?) installed as part of a Debian > package, but since it is already compiled, you do not need to do this. > > There is probably something else in the documentation which describes > what configuration you need to do, if any. Check the file listing > "dpkg -L qpopper" and see what was installed. Check any man pages > shown. > > > > > ...or...any better suggestions for a POP3 server? > > I have used both qpopper and cucipop, but am currently running popa3d, > which doesn't require any configuration and is both simple and secure. > > Bob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
