I am attempting to install froxlor on a newly installed Debian 5. When I execute the commend "aptitude install froxlor" I get this:

The following packages are BROKEN:
 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli php5-gd php5-imap
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 apache2-mpm-prefork{a} apache2-utils{a} apache2.2-common{a} courier-authdaemon{a} courier-authlib{a}
 courier-authlib-mysql{a} courier-authlib-userdb{a} courier-base{a} courier-imap{a} courier-pop{a} expect{a}
 froxlor libsasl2-modules-sql{a} maildrop{a} php5{a} php5-mysql{a} php5-suhosin{a} postfix-mysql{a} tcl8.4{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
 php5-common

I do not want apache installed. I am using lighttpd. I do not want courier installed. I want to use dovecot. Why does it insist in installing packages related to these two unwanted items?

I also can't figure why it says "libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli php5-gd php5-imap" are broken. I removed these earlier with an "aptitude purge" command.

If i remember correctly, debian works a bit weird here - if you have the packages you want to use installed before, the froxlor-deb won't pull them in.

You want lighttpd instead of apache -> first apt-get lighttpd and then froxlor so the deb knows you already have a httpd installed.

as said it's a bit weird, but i think that's how this debian package-thing works.

 

Broken packages: maybe you haven't removed them correctly or something...

lighttpd was already installed when I attempted to install froxlor:

# whereis lighttpd
lighttpd: /usr/sbin/lighttpd /etc/lighttpd /usr/lib/lighttpd /usr/lib64/lighttpd /usr/share/lighttpd /usr/share/man/man8
/lighttpd.8.gz

You can aptitude not to install recommended packages:

 

echo -e "APT
\t{
\tInstall-Recommends "false";
\t}" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20norecommends

 

After that:

aptitude update
aptitude upgrade
aptitude install froxlor

 

Regards,

/Sorin

This eliminated aptitude wanting to install courier. But it still wants to install apache files:

The following packages are BROKEN:
 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 apache2-mpm-prefork{a} apache2-utils{a} apache2.2-common{a} froxlor php5{a} php5-mysql{a}

The froxlor installation files show apache as a dependency, not a recommend:

# aptitude show froxlor
...
Depends: apache2 | lighttpd | nginx, php5, php5-cli, php5-mysql, mysql-server, mysql-client, mysql-common, webalizer |
        awstats, wwwconfig-common
Recommends: postfix-mysql | exim4-daemon-heavy, libsasl2-modules-sql, maildrop, courier-authlib-mysql | dovecot-common,
           courier-imap | dovecot-imapd, courier-pop | dovecot-pop3d, php5-gd, php5-suhosin, php5-imap,
           proftpd-mod-mysql | pure-ftpd-mysql, bind9

The problem is only half solved.