"Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I want to change my MTA from sendmail to qmail. How to do that? > > When I want to install qmail, dpkg says that I can't do that because > sendmail is already installed as a MTA. If I want to uninstall > sendmail, then it refuses because a lot of package depends on > MTA. I've tried --auto-deconfigure, but seems not to have any > effect.
Use dpkg directly and run it with: dpkg -r --force-depends ... This will ignore the dependencies for this particular removal. But be warned, you should install the new MTA as soon as possible to keep you system consistent. Torsten -- "What a depressingly stupid machine" The Restaurant at the End of the Universe PGP Public Key is available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .