Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, 08 May 2011 20:45:00 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: > >> Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> writes: >> >>> What *exact* command did you run? >> >> I used the curses interface to aptitude, so I just told it to install >> exim4 and remove postfix. I just tried a command line equivalent as >> follows: >> >> # aptitude install postfix- exim4+ exim4-base+ exim4-config+ >> exim4-daemon-light+ > > (...) > > Errr, just a *very wild guess*, but have you tried by directly install > Exim4 and let the package manager handles the situation by itself? I say > this because the system requires at least one mail agent (or akin MDA) to > be present so maybe the error is being generated from that. > > Anyway, IIRC, as soon as you select the Exim package to be installed, > Postfix is automatically marked to be removed (and viceversa) :-)
I hadn't tried it because I hadn't really trusted it, but you are absolutely right. It automatically tries to do exactly what I specified manually, but unfortunately the results and error are exactly the same. Thanks for the suggestion. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org -- 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/87aaev30pi.fsf@oak.localnet
