On Di, 04 Jun 2019, Frank Watt wrote:
>
>
> On 4/06/19 1:24 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > Frank Watt wrote:
> > >
> > > |You seem to be on x86_64 (or amd64 as debian calls it), so unless
> > > |you are building as 32-bit you don't need any of these.
> > > |
> > > |The -dev versions include headers, so you need those to compile, the
> > > |more-basic versions are only the libraries (for packages provided by
> > > |debian). And 'ncurses5' is the old version for ASCII or ISO-8859-N
> > > |versions - these days, 'ncurses5w' is probably what you need
> >
> >
> > 95% of your problems here will go away with:
> >
> > sudo apt build-dep mutt
> >
> > which will fetch and install all the libraries and tools
> > necessary to build Debian's current version of mutt.
>
> # sudo apt build-dep mutt
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to find a source package for mutt
> Tui mutt-1.12.0 # which mutt
> /usr/bin/mutt
> Tui mutt-1.12.0 # dpkg -S /usr/bin/mutt
> dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/mutt
You need deb-src urls in your /etc/apt/sources.list.
> What am I to infer from that? Could that be because I'm not a Debian purist
> since I use Linux Mint?
Yes, very likely.
> Were I to install nullmailer, it would remove sendmail, but is that any use
> with a 9 year old mutt? I find everything I need in it. Would it work to
> reinstall the old mutt deb after replacing sendmail with nullmailer? I get
> the impression that the deb configures the installation to use the mta
> present at the time.
Yes, because it listens on your port 25, which can of course be only one
single pakage. Therefore the different MTAs conflict each other. If you
are satisifed with sendmail and it does everything you need, I wouldn't
change it.
regards,
Christian
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