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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 5:43 pm    Post subject: Can't install qmail / sendmail Reply with quote

I tried to install qmail or sendmail on Gentoo 1.2, but then:

Calculating Depencies...done
Error: The virtual/mta package conflicts with this package...

I already tried to install virtual/mta but is doesn't work :(
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

moving to networking forum.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 6:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Can't install qmail / sendmail Reply with quote

Anonymous wrote:
Error: The virtual/mta package conflicts with this package...

Can you figure out which package is providing virtual/mta and unmerge it first? ssmtp, perhaps?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 9:17 pm    Post subject: got the same problem Reply with quote

this worked for me:
Code:

emerge unmerge net-mail/ssmtp


but when i got problems sending a testmail
Code:

bash-2.05a# sendmail ragerino@gmx.net
test
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collect: Cannot write ./dfg6BNEEcn005314 (bfcommit, uid=1000, gid=407): Permission denied
queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfg6BNEEcn005314, uid=1000: Permission denied
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 1:43 pm    Post subject: Can't install qmail / sendmail Reply with quote

I unmerge the ssmtp package:

Code:

emerge -C ssmtp


and after qmail installation all works fine :wink:
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