Failed rpm install

[Julian Field]

Does "rpm -Uv" produce any more useful info than  -Uvh ?
Sounds like something is broken on your redhat box.

Does a "rpm --rebuilddb" help at all?

At 18:53 03/05/2003, you wrote:
>Thanks for your help, I re-downloaded the file and gunzipped
>it with tar xvzf, and also used sum on the mailscanner*rpm file which gave
>exactly the same readings as they should be: 40654 563.
>
>Could it be a fault not with the mailscanner install but something else on
>the machine?
>
>I then tried the  ./inshall.sh script which executed perfectly up until this
>point:
>---------
>Installing tnef decoder
>
>Preparing...  ########################################### [100%]
>package tnef-1.1.4-sizelimit1 is already installed
>
>Now to install MailScanner itself.
>
>Preparing...  ########################################### [100%]
>./install.sh: line 254: 30758 Segmentation fault
>rpm -Uvh ${NODEPS} mailscanner*noarch.rpm
>---------
>
>
>Then tried both these commands:
>---------
>[root at cur MailScanner-4.20-3]# rpm -Uvh --nodeps mailscanner*rpm
>Preparing...  ########################################### [100%]
>Segmentation fault
>[root at cur MailScanner-4.20-3]# rpm -Uvh mailscanner*rpm
>Preparing...  ########################################### [100%]
>Segmentation fault
>---------
>
>
> > To start with, try downloading it again and check that you
> > have a correct copy. The command
> >          sum mailscanner*rpm
> > should produce
> >          40654   563
> >
> > I haven't changed anything in the way that I package it,
> > other than the entire distribution comes compressed (i.e.
> > .tar.gz instead of just .tar).

--
Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support