On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:54:24AM +0200, Christoph Pleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
was heard to say:
> Hello,
>
> I had a machine with almost a minimal set of packages installed, one of
> those packages was exim4 which had been installed automatically because
> of dependencies of another package. Then, I used "dpkg --set-selections
> < packagelist" to set a very large package selection list (about 1400
> packages). Then, I called "aptitude -y -f install" to really install the
> packages. Most of the packages could be installed successfully, but some
> remained in state "install ok uninstalled" because of a strange conflict
> resolution.
>
> The core problem was that the big package list contained ssmtp, which has a
> conflict with the previously installed exim4. So, aptitude tried to
> solve the conflict:
>
> The following packages are BROKEN:
> exim4-config exim4-daemon-light ssmtp
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 44.0kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> exim4-config: Conflicts: ssmtp but 2.61-11.1 is to be installed.
> exim4-daemon-light: Conflicts: mail-transport-agent which is a
> virtual package.
> ssmtp: Conflicts: mail-transport-agent which is a virtual
> package.
> Resolving dependencies...
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Remove the following packages:
> exim4
> exim4-base
> exim4-config
> exim4-daemon-light
>
> Keep the following packages at their current version:
>
> gnome-desktop-environment [ not installed ]
> kdewebdev [ not installed ]
> lyx-common [ not installed ]
> ibritish [ not installed ]
> quanta-data [ not installed ]
> quanta [ not installed ]
> free-java-sdk [ not installed ]
> sablevm [ not installed ]
> gnome [ not installed ]
> lyx [ not installed ]
> kde [ not installed ]
> policycoreutils [ not installed ]
> lyx-qt [ not installed ]
>
>
> I think that the conflict between exim4 and ssmtp should not have an
> effect on the packages mentioned below "Keep the following packages at
> their current version:".
Hi,
What do you get if you type "o" at the prompt?
Thanks,
Daniel
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