Baffling menu when installing RKHunter
Someone advised me to install a program called rkhunter for security. I've tried to do so, just using the apt command at the terminal, but am presented with a weird message about e-mail servers.
I have no idea what any of these options mean and so haven't dared to select any in case I gum up my Internet connection or something. What should I select?
It's possible that some other package called postfix, which was a required package that installed along with rkhunter, might be behind this rather than rkhunter itself. The word "postfix" appears on the menu.
Annoyingly, not only can I not get rkhunter going until this is completed, but it appears that dpkg is gummed up until it's completed and I can't install or uninstall anything else either!
package-management postfix rkhunter
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Someone advised me to install a program called rkhunter for security. I've tried to do so, just using the apt command at the terminal, but am presented with a weird message about e-mail servers.
I have no idea what any of these options mean and so haven't dared to select any in case I gum up my Internet connection or something. What should I select?
It's possible that some other package called postfix, which was a required package that installed along with rkhunter, might be behind this rather than rkhunter itself. The word "postfix" appears on the menu.
Annoyingly, not only can I not get rkhunter going until this is completed, but it appears that dpkg is gummed up until it's completed and I can't install or uninstall anything else either!
package-management postfix rkhunter
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Someone advised me to install a program called rkhunter for security. I've tried to do so, just using the apt command at the terminal, but am presented with a weird message about e-mail servers.
I have no idea what any of these options mean and so haven't dared to select any in case I gum up my Internet connection or something. What should I select?
It's possible that some other package called postfix, which was a required package that installed along with rkhunter, might be behind this rather than rkhunter itself. The word "postfix" appears on the menu.
Annoyingly, not only can I not get rkhunter going until this is completed, but it appears that dpkg is gummed up until it's completed and I can't install or uninstall anything else either!
package-management postfix rkhunter
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Someone advised me to install a program called rkhunter for security. I've tried to do so, just using the apt command at the terminal, but am presented with a weird message about e-mail servers.
I have no idea what any of these options mean and so haven't dared to select any in case I gum up my Internet connection or something. What should I select?
It's possible that some other package called postfix, which was a required package that installed along with rkhunter, might be behind this rather than rkhunter itself. The word "postfix" appears on the menu.
Annoyingly, not only can I not get rkhunter going until this is completed, but it appears that dpkg is gummed up until it's completed and I can't install or uninstall anything else either!
package-management postfix rkhunter
package-management postfix rkhunter
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You are right, rkhunter wants a mail transport agent and it tries to install the large and complicated postfix to get one.
To avoid this, you can install the tiny nullmailer instead and that will satisfy the mail transport agent dependency. Once that's done, install rkhunter.
However, first you need to fix your dpkg problems. Please [edit] your question and give details about what's gone wrong there: error messages, etc.
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You are right, rkhunter wants a mail transport agent and it tries to install the large and complicated postfix to get one.
To avoid this, you can install the tiny nullmailer instead and that will satisfy the mail transport agent dependency. Once that's done, install rkhunter.
However, first you need to fix your dpkg problems. Please [edit] your question and give details about what's gone wrong there: error messages, etc.
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You are right, rkhunter wants a mail transport agent and it tries to install the large and complicated postfix to get one.
To avoid this, you can install the tiny nullmailer instead and that will satisfy the mail transport agent dependency. Once that's done, install rkhunter.
However, first you need to fix your dpkg problems. Please [edit] your question and give details about what's gone wrong there: error messages, etc.
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You are right, rkhunter wants a mail transport agent and it tries to install the large and complicated postfix to get one.
To avoid this, you can install the tiny nullmailer instead and that will satisfy the mail transport agent dependency. Once that's done, install rkhunter.
However, first you need to fix your dpkg problems. Please [edit] your question and give details about what's gone wrong there: error messages, etc.
answered 23 hours ago
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You are right, rkhunter wants a mail transport agent and it tries to install the large and complicated postfix to get one.
To avoid this, you can install the tiny nullmailer instead and that will satisfy the mail transport agent dependency. Once that's done, install rkhunter.
However, first you need to fix your dpkg problems. Please [edit] your question and give details about what's gone wrong there: error messages, etc.
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