[537] in athena10
Re: cluster-software install problem analysis
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Tue Sep 23 13:34:36 2008
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:33:49 -0400
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Greg Hudson wrote:
> 2. During the install of debathena-workstation, some errors involving
> exim:
>
> The following packages are BROKEN:
> exim4
> [...]
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> exim4: Depends: exim4-daemon-light but it is not installable or
> exim4-daemon-heavy but it is not installable or
> exim4-daemon-custom which is a virtual package.
> The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
>
> Keep the following packages at their current version:
> exim4 [Not Installed]
>
> exim4 is not cleanly installable because of debathena-msmtp-mta; no
> mystery there. I don't know why aptitude wants to install exim4 in the
> first place. The most likely candidate seems to be mailx, which Depends
> on "exim4 | mail-transport-agent", but even that should be satisfiable
> without exim.
>
When aptitude is prompting you for how to resolve the conflict, what
happens if you type "wexim4"? That should tell you why it wants to
install exim in the first place.
- Evan
