Problems installing sendmail

robertmaverick · 12-05-2011, 07:01 AM

Hi everyone,

It's actually my first time posting here, so if I'm posting it in the wrong section, or violating any rules please let me know.

I'm trying to configure sendmail on my Debian squeeze. Somehow I cannot get it to work, it's not asking me for any configuration and installer is done within a second.

It gives me some errors of some packages missing (?):

Code:

root@united-gamers:~# aptitude install sendmail
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  sendmail 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/209 kB of archives. After unpacking 258 kB will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package sendmail.
(Reading database ... 
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `isc-dhcp-client' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 10%
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `isc-dhcp-server' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 20%
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `sendmail-bin' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `sendmail-cf' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 35%
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `sendmail-base' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `isc-dhcp-common' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 123392 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking sendmail (from .../sendmail_8.14.3-9.4_all.deb) ...
Setting up sendmail (8.14.3-9.4) ...

But but the installation did not ran properly. Any help is appreciated, since I'm working at this for days know.

Robert

TB0ne · 12-05-2011, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robertmaverick

Hi everyone,
It's actually my first time posting here, so if I'm posting it in the wrong section, or violating any rules please let me know.

I'm trying to configure sendmail on my Debian squeeze. Somehow I cannot get it to work, it's not asking me for any configuration and installer is done within a second. It gives me some errors of some packages missing (?):

Code:

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `isc-dhcp-client' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `isc-dhcp-server' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `sendmail-bin' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `sendmail-cf' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `sendmail-base' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `isc-dhcp-common' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

But but the installation did not ran properly. Any help is appreciated, since I'm working at this for days know.

I'm not an expert with Debian, but from what I've read, you're missing some other packages, specifically the ones listed above. From this page:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/sendmail

It tells you that the sendmail-*** packages are required. I'm not familiar with aptitude, but with an rpm install command on SuSE/RedHat platforms, there's an option to install a package without checking dependencies. The aptitude man page will have details on the options. You may have to install the sendmail package that way, and the dependencies after, or try just doing an apt-get to install it too (again, not familiar with that command, but the man page will be able to tell you).

You may also want to try to install the sendmail-base package first, then the -bin, then -cf, and see how that goes.

robertmaverick · 12-05-2011, 11:29 AM

Thanks for the reply!

When I try to install those required packages (-bin, -cf, -base) manually it says it's already up-to-date.

Code:

apt-get install sendmail-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
sendmail-bin is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Even when I run

Code:

apt-get remove sendmail

and try it again it tells me that it's already the most recent version.

Any idea's?

Regards,
Robert

robertmaverick · 12-05-2011, 11:37 AM

Got it to work now!

I did

Code:

apt-get remove sendmail-base
apt-get remove sendmail-bin
apt-get remove sendmail-cf

Then, as you recommended installed them one by one manually, and afterwards apt-get install sendmail. It's working now.

Thanks for the help provided

Regards,
Robert