[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I installed qmail from the .tgz files after removing the sendmail package >forcefully. So at present I have a my mail transport agent as qmail >instead of sentmail, but this fact is not known to dpkg,apt-get tools >as I have installed from .tgz > >Now when I try to use apt-get install to install something, it says >broken dependencies as thereis no mail transport agent and fails to >install. > >So now I cannot use apt-get .
Either use the qmail-src package and thus get a Debian binary package of qmail that you can install neatly, or else try manually fetching and installing (using 'dpkg -i') the Debian 'equivs' package and creating yourself a dummy package either called mail-transport-agent or which 'Provides: mail-transport-agent'. The former is probably easier, if you don't mind reinstalling qmail. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
