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On Ubuntu 18 I'd like to install Apache Mod_Evasive but without installing Postfix.

In fact, I'm using msmtp as a simple way of connecting to a remote smtp server to send out mail, so I don't need a fully fledged mail server.

I don't really care that Mod_Evasive won't be able to send email notifications, since when an IP is blocked I can write a simple script to send an email via msmtp instead.

I tried:

apt install libapache2-mod-evasive postfix- bsd-mailx-

Whilst this avoided installing Postfix and BSD-Mailx, it just tried to install a bunch of other mail dependancies instead.

MrCarrot
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You can download the package with

apt download libapache2-mod-evasive

and then install it without unwanted dependencies with

sudo dpkg -i --ignore-depends=postfix,bsd-mailx libapache2-mod-evasive_1.10.1-4_amd64.deb
Afanasii Kurakin
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You can install the simple relay-only mail transport agent nullmailer instead and that will satisfy the dependency.

See my answer here https://askubuntu.com/a/1124624/243321, I find nullmailer extremely useful.

Organic Marble
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