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[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

> 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, on gutsy at least, mailx and mailutils are in
conflict.  See apt show results below for me on gutsy:
lchata at ubuntu64:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins$ aptitude
show mailutils
Package: mailutils
State: not installed
Version: 1:1.1+dfsg1-3.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/mail
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers
<ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 831k
Depends: guile-1.6-libs, libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1),
libcomerr2 (>= 1.33-3), libfribidi0 (>= 0.10.7),
libgcrypt11 (>= 1.2.2),
         libgdbm3, libgnutls13 (>= 1.4.0-0),
libgpg-error0 (>= 1.4), libgsasl7, libguile-ltdl-1,
libidn11 (>= 0.5.18),
         libkrb53 (>= 1.4.2), libltdl3 (>= 1.5.2-2),
libmailutils1 (>= 1.1), libmysqlclient15off (>=
5.0.24-2), libncurses5
         (>= 5.4-5), libpam0g (>= 0.76), libreadline5
(>= 5.2), libtasn1-3 (>= 0.3.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1),
exim4 |
         mail-transport-agent
Suggests: mailutils-mh
Conflicts: mailx, elm-me+ (< 2.4pl25ME+99c-3)
Replaces: mailutils-doc
Provides: mail-reader, mailx
Description: GNU mailutils utilities for handling mail
 This package contains the GNU mailutils versions of
dotlock, frm, from guimb, mail, messages, mimeview,
movemail, readmsg and
 sieve. They are capable of speaking POP3, IMAP, mbox,
MH and Maildir.

 dotlock -- lock mail spool files.
 frm -- display From: lines.
 from -- display from and subject.
 guimb -- process the contents of the specified
mailboxes using a Scheme
          program or expression.
 mail -- the standard /bin/mail interface, mail sender
and reader.
 messages -- count the number of messages in a
mailbox.
 mimeview -- display files, using mailcap mechanism.
 movemail -- move messages across mailboxes.
 readmsg -- extract selected messages from a mailbox.
 sieve -- a mail filtering tool.

I can't install mailutils without uninstalling mailx
due to the conflict.  I have mailx and exim4, etc
installed now.


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net