On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 17:02 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Matt Brown <matt(a)mattb.net.nz> [2005-09-27 12:35]:
In technical terms they are marked to remove because the maintainers of the Exim or Postfix packages have specified that the conflict with each other and should never be installed at the same time.
That’s the obvious explanation for `postfix` and `postfix-tls`.
Indeed, exim4-config conflicts with postfix.
But what about `mutt` and `mailx`?
And once those are explained, how does it manage to conclude that `ubuntu-base`, `anacron`, `at` and `lsb` have to be uninstalled?
A good question, I must confess my eyes failed me and I didn't see that line of the output when I went to reply. Looking at the package database on Ubuntu Breezy I cannot see any package relationships that would cause that situation to occur if the command apt-get install exim4 exim4-config had been run on an otherwise clean system. (I'm leaving synaptic out of the equation here for a moment). My suspicion is that your system was probably in an unclean state before you started synaptic and that breakage has just carried through to occur in the same operation as the exim install. What version of Ubuntu are you running Ivan? Do you know if the package system was clean before you tried to install Exim? My suggestion on how to fix this would be to drop to the command line, run apt-get install (no arguments). This will handle any packages that are not in a clean state. Once you can run apt-get install (no arguments) and have it return without doing anything, then try apt-get install exim4 exim4-config (or use synaptic if you prefer). Personally I still don't trust all these fancy newfangled package managers like synaptic and aptitude. apt-get forever! HTH. -- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz Mob +64 275 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz