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Hi all,

I'm working on a virtual server under OpenVZ and installing the packages described in Step 12, and aptitude is telling me that two packages are broken: rmail sendmail

It offers a couple of alternatives, if I choose not to accept its solution, but they all leave postfix uninstalled.

Code:

root@www:/# aptitude install postfix postfix-mysql postfix-doc mysql-client mysql-server courier-authdaemon courier-authlib-mysql courier-pop courier-pop-ssl courier-imap courier-imap-ssl libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-sql sasl2-bin libpam-mysql openssl maildrop getmail4 rkhunter binutils 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Reading extended state information      

Initializing package states... Done

The following packages are BROKEN:

  rmail sendmail 

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  courier-authdaemon courier-authlib{a} courier-authlib-mysql courier-authlib-userdb{a} courier-base{a} 

  courier-imap courier-imap-ssl courier-pop courier-pop-ssl courier-ssl{a} expect{a} gamin{a} getmail4 

  libdbd-mysql-perl{a} libdbi-perl{a} libgamin0{a} libhtml-template-perl{a} libmd5-perl{a} libnet-daemon-perl{a} 

  libpam-mysql libplrpc-perl{a} libsasl2-modules-sql libsqlite0{a} libterm-readkey-perl{a} maildrop mysql-client 

  mysql-client-5.0{a} mysql-server mysql-server-5.0{a} mysql-server-core-5.0{a} postfix postfix-doc postfix-mysql 

  python-support{a} rkhunter tcl8.4{a} unhide{a} 

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  sendmail-bin{a} 

0 packages upgraded, 37 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 42.6MB of archives. After unpacking 127MB will be used.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

  sendmail: Depends: sendmail-bin but it is not installable

  rmail: Conflicts: postfix but 2.5.5-1.1 is to be installed.

The following actions will resolve these dependencies:



Remove the following packages:

rmail

sendmail



Score is 192



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n   

The following actions will resolve these dependencies:



Keep the following packages at their current version:

postfix [Not Installed]

postfix-mysql [Not Installed]

sendmail-bin [8.14.3-6 (jaunty, now)]



Score is -19743

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dave