package mailx and exim4 failed to install/upgrade from LiveCD

[Ben F-W]

Binary package hint: mailx

Tried to install smartmontools from the 8.04.1 LiveCD. One of the dependencies is various exim4 packages, and these failed to install, which meant the whole package claimed to have failed.

This may be sensible (having an MTA running from a LiveCD would be odd), but perhaps the failure should be handled with more explanation?

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 3 15:09:24 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Package: mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20071017cvs-2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: mailx
Title: package mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20071017cvs-2 failed to install/upgrade: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

I thinks exim4 shouldn't be installed at all. See bug #158909.
To install smartmontools without exim run: sudo apt-get install smartmontools --no-install-recommends

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Karmic Koala. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/. Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!