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Re: how to exclude a package

From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew(at)farwestbilliards.com>
Date: Mon Jun 25 2007 - 01:57:57 EDT

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:35:19AM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:

> >>Chuck Payne wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>I got a problem, I am using cpanel it keeps replacing postfix with exim.
> >>>I like to know what is the simplest way to tell apt-get not to install
> >>>exim. I have try to google, but most of the stuff I am reading makes it
> >>>sound like you can't tell apt-get not to install app.
> >>>
> >
> Ok, what is happen is cpanel doesn't care that postfix is install, it
> replaces every time with exim every time it does it own update. I was
> hoping that there was a way to stop cpanel from replacing postfix by
> editing one of the apt conf files. That what going on guys. I am not
> doing the install. It's cpanel.

I don't know cpanel, but it must be interfacing with the apt system somehow. The other suggestion will probably work, but use dpkg.

dpkg --set-selections postfix hold

prior to whatever cpanel is doing should hold postfix. or another option that just occured to me: use equivs

http://www.wickle.com/wiki/index.php/Install_a_dummy_package_to_satisfy_dependencies_on_debian

might be just the ticket.

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