I would say that probably you ran dselect first, and that package got selected. The easiest way would be to start dselect , then find "exim" with / exim Enter and unistall it.
Ted Roden wrote: > this is a pretty dumb question, but its driving me > crazy... > > I'm trying to install software with apt-get and i'm > getting errors for packages I didn't try to install. > Not the dependancies of the package i want, > but a totally unrelated package... > > ie: > > $ apt-get install lynx > Reading Page lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install` to correct these: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > exim: Depends: libpcre1 but it is not going to be installed > eximon: Depends: xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) but it is not going to be > installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install` with no packages (or > specify a solution) > > how can i get rid of this? > > Thanks. > ted. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null