You could do it like that :)
apt-get install qmail-src
apt-get install ucspi-tcp-src
build-qmail
build-ucspi-tcp
apt-get --force-depends --purge remove exim
dpkg -i ucspi-tcp.deb qmail.deb
Eric Böse-Wolf
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Title: RE: Qmail installation
apt-get --force-depends --purge remove exim doesn't work actually it answers
E: Command line option --force-depends is not understood
But to remove exim I did dpkg -r --force-all exim
I did
apt-get install qmail-src
apt-get install ucspi-tcp-src
build
Configfiles are stored in
/etc/qmail, which is linked to /var/qmail/control
starting and stopping is done with
/etc/init.d/qmail start
/etc/init.d/qmail stop
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Title: RE: Qmail installation
Ok I restarted the installation from scratch, script has created qmail users.
To remove exim I did dpkg -r --force-all exim
When the installation unpacks exim it complains
Do you want to install qmail_1.03-24_i386.deb now? [Yn] Y
dpkg: regarding qmail_1.03
Title: RE: Qmail installation RESOLVED !
I deleted every single file related with exim, I removed procmail and mailx and reinstalled them then reinstall qmail.
The biggest problem was with mailx, then I did the same with procmail and everything went ok.
With that experience I arrive
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 06:06:31PM +0100, mike moon wrote:
With that experience I arrive to the conclusion that
- Removing exim is difficult.
- A lot of packages which are using mail i.e apache are too strongly
attached to exim, because we should be able to set up a webserver without
having a
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:06:31 +0100 mike moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With that experience I arrive to the conclusion that
- Removing exim is difficult.
I didn't have much of a problem replacing exim with qmail, but I did do it
all at one time. I had the qmail deb ready and installed it and
Title: RE: Qmail installation RESOLVED !
But it's always very difficult(to me) to uninstall exim !!!
What would you do if you want to remove exim without removing apache for instance ?
I don't know equivs, what is it ? where can I find a short or good documentation about it ?
Regards
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:24:47PM +0100, Mikael Jirari wrote:
But it's always very difficult(to me) to uninstall exim !!!
What would you do if you want to remove exim without removing apache for
instance ?
Install another MTA in packaged form, or a dummy MTA package. If you're
using apt-get,
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