By Chris Job
Can anyone tell how i can solve the following problem I’m getting when I try to install sendmail:
sendmail : Depends: sendmail-base but it is not going to be installed Depends: sendmail-bin but it is not going to be installed Depends: sendmail-cf but it is not going to be installed Depends: sensible-mda but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt-get -f install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
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This question was answered by @ryanpq:
Are you installing via apt-get? If so did you first do an
apt-get update? If you are attempting to install from a deb package using dpkg you should try runningapt-get -f installas directed by this message as it will usually resolve the issue.
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