Marc Haber said > On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:56:37 -0500, you wrote: > >The necessary package for telling Debian that you've got a locally > >built mail-transport-agent installed is "equivs". > > Thanks. > > >The "equivs" package only seems to be available from http://www.debian.org > >and not from any mirror sites. Or at least that was what seemed to be the > >case when I was doing all of this.... > > My local mirror had the package. Here is what I did > [...] > So I seem to be in a circular situation: I can't install equiv package > just made because I have smail installed. I can't uninstall smail > because I have numerous packages that require mail-transport-agent. > > How do I get out of this circle? > How about this: dpkg --auto-deconfigure -r smail dpkg -i equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb dpkg --pending --configure
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