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Old 01-01-2006, 04:02 PM   #1
OneBinary
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Trouble removing postfix


Hey All,

For some reason why I try to remove postfix, apt-get wants to remove the mysql-server package as well. Anybody know why this is? I use mysql-server so I can not afford to remove it. Seems odd that an MTA wants to remove a database package. I do not have postfix-mysql installed btw:

Code:
root@g [/etc]# apt-get --purge remove postfix
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   maildrop* (1.5.3-1.1sarge1)
   mailx* (8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4)
   mysql-server* (4.0.24-10sarge1)
   postfix* (2.1.5-9)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 11.7MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
Code:
root@g [/etc]# dpkg -l '*postfix*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name              Version           Description
+++-=================-=================-========================================
ii  postfix           2.1.5-9           A high-performance mail transport agent
un  postfix-doc       <none>            (no description available)
un  postfix-ldap      <none>            (no description available)
un  postfix-mysql     <none>            (no description available)
un  postfix-pcre      <none>            (no description available)
un  postfix-pgsql     <none>            (no description available)
un  postfix-tls       <none>            (no description available)
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kevin
 
Old 01-02-2006, 09:25 AM   #2
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Hi

Postfix is a MTA and I didn't think a Linux system could work without one. I think it was strange that it would remove so few packages.

It seems mysql wants some MTA, but it doesn't have to be postfix. If you want to get rid of postfix, you just have to install some other MTA.

try e.g.
apt-get --purge install exim
 
  


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