On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:35:19AM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote: > >>Chuck Payne wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exim. > >>>I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install > >>>exim. I have try to google, but most of the stuff I am reading makes it > >>>sound like you can't tell apt-get not to install app. > >>> > > > Ok, what is happen is cpanel doesn't care that postfix is install, it > replaces every time with exim every time it does it own update. I was > hoping that there was a way to stop cpanel from replacing postfix by > editing one of the apt conf files. That what going on guys. I am not > doing the install. It's cpanel.
I don't know cpanel, but it must be interfacing with the apt system somehow. The other suggestion will probably work, but use dpkg. dpkg --set-selections postfix hold prior to whatever cpanel is doing should hold postfix. or another option that just occured to me: use equivs http://www.wickle.com/wiki/index.php/Install_a_dummy_package_to_satisfy_dependencies_on_debian might be just the ticket. A
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