> Have installed Qmail, so Sendmail was uninstalled. Sendmail was a > dependency for net-snmp which was further dependency for ethereal & > ethreal-gnome respectively. Uninstalled all thee with rpm -e --nodeps > command. > using --nodeps leads to insanity. Satisfy your deps correctly and you'll be much happier. > Now rpm -q --whatrequires sendmail responds No package requires > Sendmail. Yum still insists on installing sendmail and insists it is to > satisfy dependency. On saying N to this it exits.....What to do? something you're trying to update to requires sendmail. hence the dependency. Add your base repository for the total distro to your yum.conf and it will pull in sendmail properly. -sv
