Marc Haber said: >> So I seem to be in a circular situation: I can't install equiv package >> just made because I have smail installed. I can't uninstall smail >> because I have numerous packages that require mail-transport-agent. >> >> How do I get out of this circle?
I did exactly this yesterday (replacing smail with exim). apt-get install exim was smart enough to first remove smail and subsequently install exim. It worked without a hitch (all I had to do was remove some files by hand in /var/spool/ and /var/log/). It was very impressive, Jim