[Sussex] debian

Thomas Adam thomas_adam at bonbon.net
Thu Jul 15 21:44:36 UTC 2004


On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:40:40 +0100
Stuart Nixon <snixon at rednut.net> wrote:

> Hello all.
> 
> I have sucessfully compiled & installed exim from debian source. i now
> only have one problem, and thats that whenever i use dselect->install 
> (after selecting somethign i want installed)  it keeps saying its
> going to upgrade exim.

That's because dselect is the root of all evil, and you were meant to
install the debs via the command:

dpkg -i ./debian.deb

In the future, use aptitude.

-- Thomas Adam

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