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I want to install mailman (just to use it's mail archiving feature) but Ubuntu wants to pull down a load of extra dependencies.

sudo apt-get install mailman 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  apache2 apache2-mpm-worker apache2.2-common
Suggested packages:
  apache2-doc apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom spamassassin lynx listadmin

Is there any way to mark those packages ( apache2 apache2-mpm-worker apache2.2-common ) as never to be installed? This is not 2002 ;)

Bryan Hunt
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Mailman depends on either apache2 or the httpd metapackage, so pick a webserver that fancies you and provides httpd.

Edit: You can get a list of packages providing httpd with the command aptitude search '~Phttpd' and in case that you really don't want any web server installed (and risk a broken system), you could construct a dummy package with the help of the tools in the equivs package.

Sven
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