Can't remove sendmail with dselect/dpkg

1996-08-18 Thread John Houwen
In my original installation, I incorrectly selected sendmail (among other things ) to be installed. Upon further investigation, smail would appear to be the preferred mail transport device. However, dselect/dpkg refuses to remove it, or any part of it. "smail not installed, cannot remove send

Tex won't install

1996-08-13 Thread John Houwen
Hello All, I want to thank you for the hand I got with my last adventure with dpkg/dselect and it (the link to /bin/perl from /usr/bin/perl) cleared up a lot of the problems. However, the *entire* tex package won't install, telling me there are dependency problems and dselect (although it give

dselect/dpkg problem: install/remove

1996-08-07 Thread John Houwen
I seem to have a similar problem with dselect/dpkg, but not with the dpkg-ftp option (haven't gotten that far yet) The dselect package has given me problems from the first. I made a few errors in my 1st attempt at the CDRom install, but managed to get most of the selected packages unpacked & i