Re: [LI] Fetchmail installation says: smtpdaemon is needesmtpdaemonis needed

[Ghins Mathai]

Thanks Atul, 
It worked.

Now one question ...
How did you find out what the error message meant ?

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Atul Chitnis wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Ghins Mathai wrote:
> 
> > error: failed dependencies:
> >         smtpdaemon is needed by fetchmail-4.5.8-2
> > 
> > 
> > I am unable to find smtpdaemon in any package. Where could it possibly be
> 
> smtpdaemon is any package installed that handles smtp mail delivery -
> usually sendmail.
> 
> If you have uninstalled sendmail and then hand-installed something else,
> the RPM dependency mechanism will not know about it, and hence when
> fetchmail checks for sendmail/qmail/whatever, it won't find it as an
> instaleld package.
> 
> Atul
> 

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