cannot install MailScanner due to 2 instances of Perl

[Mustafa N. Deeb]

Make sure that you have just 1 perl binary, if you have 2 rename one


Preferably, the 5.8.0 of course,

Since each perl (instance) has its own different library locations,
You will need to reinstall the packages, needed for Mailscanner (Just
run the install script again)
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-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Dene Ulmschneider
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 3:05 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: cannot install MailScanner due to 2 instances of Perl

Thank a lot for the suggestions but I tired that already. When I tried
that
it gave me some error about having an issue with MakeMaker and that I
needed
to update that before the install would continue.

When I ran Julians script to update MakeMaker - it ran through perfectly
-
but still could not run the install script for MailScanner. I think the
MakeMaker script was updating the 5.8.3 version of Perl and the
MailScanner
script is trying to use the 5.8.0 version of perl.

How can I get this to work?

Regards,

Dene Ulmschneider
142 Willis Avenue
Mineola, N.Y. 11501
tel:        866.MY.PC.HELP
fax:       718.228.2657
web:     www.datatechie.com
email:   dene at datatechie.com

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf
Of Stephen Swaney
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:58 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: cannot install MailScanner due to 2 instances of Perl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Dene Ulmschnieder
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:21 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: cannot install MailScanner due to 2 instances of Perl
>
> Hello all.
>
>
>
> I am getting an error while trying to install MailScanner-4.29.7-1
that
> states that I nave 2 versions of Perl installed and that I should get
rid
> of one of them.
>
>
>
> This is a new server that I am setting up and it installed Perl 5.8.0
(
> /usr/bin ) with the RHL 9 install but I also installed 5.8.3 (
/usr/local
> ) to have the latest version running. The MailScanner script says that
I
> should completely remove the version located in /usr/local (5.8.3) and
> then run the script again. I would like to keep the newer version and
> remove the older 5.8.0 version. The questions that I have are:
>
>
>
> 1-       Is there a technical reason to keep the older 5.8.0?
>
> 2-       How do I COMPLETELY remove the version of Perl that I do not
want
> to keep?
>
> 3-       If I uninstall 5.8.0 will that affect anything else on the
server
> that may be directed to that version?
>
> 4-       If so - how can I (if at all) redirect all Perl requests to
the
> 5.8.3 version?
>

I'm not the perl expert but you might try the install using

        install.sh -ignore-perl

I've had to install MailScanner on a few "hosted" servers where I had
little
control over perl or other applications and Julian's' install flag has
always worked.

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com

>
> Thanks for any help or direction that anyone might be able to offer.
This
> new server is replacing a 3 year old server that already has
MailScanner /
> SA running and we LOVE it. Just hoping to get a little help to keep
use
> it.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Dene Ulmschneider
>
> 142 Willis Avenue
>
> Mineola, N.Y. 11501
>
> tel:        866.MY.PC.HELP
>
> fax:       718.228.2657
>
> web:     www.datatechie.com <http://www.datatechie.com/>
>
> email:   dene at datatechie.com
>
>
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