Bug#621836: exim4: Could not perform immediate configuration

[Slavko]

Ahoj,

Dňa Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:51:01 +0200 Andreas Metzler
<ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> napísal:

> just for completeness sake, does "apt-get install exim4" work for you
> or does it produce the same error as "aptitude install exim4"?

today i find some time to play. I uninstall exim4 and replaced it by
ssmtp package without any error. And after this i try install exim4
back. I get the same error:

LANG=C aptitude install exim4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  exim4 exim4-base{a} exim4-config{ab} exim4-daemon-light{ab} 
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2107 kB of archives. After unpacking 4076 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  exim4-daemon-light: Conflicts: mail-transport-agent which is a virtual package.
  exim4-config: Conflicts: ssmtp but 2.64-4 is installed.
  ssmtp: Conflicts: mail-transport-agent which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Remove the following packages:
1)     ssmtp                       



Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  exim4 exim4-base{a} exim4-config{a} exim4-daemon-light{a} 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ssmtp{a} 
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2107 kB of archives. After unpacking 4076 kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'exim4-daemon-light'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)

and here is by apt-get:

LANG=C apt-get install exim4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
Suggested packages:
  eximon4 exim4-doc-html exim4-doc-info spf-tools-perl
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ssmtp
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2107 kB of archives.
After this operation, 4076 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'exim4-daemon-light'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)

I do not know, if problem is caused by previous uninstalling the exim4
packages (yes in first report was exim4 uninstalled some time ago too).


regards

-- 
Slavko
http://slavino.sk
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