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[Karl Larsen]

Mike Bird wrote:
> On Tue June 17 2008 17:39:26 Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>>     
>>> Decided to take your advise as I don't care for
>>> anything as complicated as postfix to set up.  Did
>>> that before with list help and still don't know what
>>> got mutt to read root mail.  However, you said to
>>> install mailx and mailutil(s) which on my gutsy are
>>> conflicting. I can install either one but not both.
>>> Care to qualify your instructions.
>>>       
>> On Hardy it took both.
>>     
>
> Doesn't work in my copy of Hardy (see below).  Which versions
> of mailx and mailutils do you have simultaneously installed
> Karl?
>
> --Mike Bird
>
> # apt-get --dry-run install mailx mailutils
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> mailx is already the newest version.
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   mailutils: Conflicts: mailx
> E: Broken packages
> #
>
>   
    What I did and worked was to get first mailx and it installed fine. 
Then I got mailutil and it loaded fine. Then I got the pdf manual and it 
is too old. It must be for an earlier software. I found /etc/mail.rc 
which is a control file. If you get that with mailx then you might not 
need mailutil.

Karl



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