Re: Swapping dependencies

Dave Sherohman wrote: > I know I can use dpkg's 'force' options to override these complaints, but is > there a better way to perform this sort of replacement? apt-get install exim -- see shy jo

Swapping dependencies

On one of my machines, I initially installed ssmtp and I now want to replace it with exim. However... dpkg -i exim...deb fails because exim conflicts with ssmtp and dpkg --purge ssmtp fails because various other packages depend on mail-transport-agent... I know I can use dpkg's 'force' option