mailscanner and debian woody 3.0

[Joe Baker]

On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 00:10, jack mendez wrote:
> okay here is the deal.
> i tried to install mailscanner with debian woody 3.0 and it failed, broke
> my /var/lib/dpkg/status file and put lots of stuff where it wasn't supposed
> to go.
> here is what i did.
> first, i upgraded to the newest version of f-prot.
>  (4.1.2)
> for this, i knew i'd need the newest version of mailscanner because the
> wrappers had changed.
> i downloaded the latest rpm version, downloaded and installed all the
> required perl modules, used alien to convert the rpm file to a .deb file,
> it appeared to work fine but no go.
> can anyone help with the install, or give some suggestions?
> thanks.
> Jack

Use aptitude instead of dpkg for installing software.

I'm really rusty on my Debian admin stuff, but I remember that dpkg
wasn't a very respected way to install stuff cause it was too buggy.

-Joe Baker