[Gllug] Not installing stuff.

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

On 01/06/11 20:17, Paul Cupis wrote:
> On 01/06/11 20:05, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
>> I can't see why apticron has to have the above packages if there is
>> already a perfectly serviceable mail server running on the system
>> already. Am I being naive or ignorant of how scripts like to send mail
>> here or is there a way to get apticron to install without the extra bumph?
> apt doesn't know that you have a working mta on your system, but thinks
> it needs one for apticron (or a dependancy) to work, so wants to install
> one.
>
> If you can work out the specific reason it wants the mta (package
> dependancy-wise), you can use the "equivs" package to tell apt that you
> have a working mta and it will not try to install one from packages.
>
> What is the exact output of something like:
>
>   apt-get --no-install-recommends -s install apticron postfix-
>
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OK, in light of what some other respondents have said I dunno if my mail
prog can meet the dependency of mailx on a mail prog with a "sendmail
interface" but here's the output anyway...

NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Package postfix is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  ssl-cert
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light guile-1.8-libs libgsasl7
  libmailutils2 libmysqlclient16 libntlm0 mailutils mysql-common ssl-cert
Suggested packages:
  mail-reader eximon4 exim4-doc-html exim4-doc-info libmail-spf-query-perl
  swaks mailutils-mh
Recommended packages:
  apt-listchanges mailx
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apticron exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light guile-1.8-libs
  libgsasl7 libmailutils2 libmysqlclient16 libntlm0 mailutils mysql-common
  ssl-cert
0 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst exim4-config (4.71-3ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Inst exim4-base (4.71-3ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Inst exim4-daemon-light (4.71-3ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Inst exim4 (4.71-3ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Inst guile-1.8-libs (1.8.7+1-3ubuntu1 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Inst libntlm0 (1.1-1 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Inst libgsasl7 (1.4.4-1ubuntu1 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Inst mysql-common (5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Inst libmysqlclient16 (5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Inst libmailutils2 (1:2.1+dfsg1-4ubuntu1 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Inst mailutils (1:2.1+dfsg1-4ubuntu1 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Inst ssl-cert (1.0.23ubuntu2 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Inst apticron (1.1.39 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Conf exim4-config (4.71-3ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Conf exim4-base (4.71-3ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Conf exim4-daemon-light (4.71-3ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Conf exim4 (4.71-3ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Conf guile-1.8-libs (1.8.7+1-3ubuntu1 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Conf libntlm0 (1.1-1 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Conf libgsasl7 (1.4.4-1ubuntu1 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Conf mysql-common (5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Conf libmysqlclient16 (5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid-updates)
Conf libmailutils2 (1:2.1+dfsg1-4ubuntu1 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Conf mailutils (1:2.1+dfsg1-4ubuntu1 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Conf ssl-cert (1.0.23ubuntu2 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)
Conf apticron (1.1.39 Ubuntu:10.04/lucid)

Cheers,

Roger


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