Mailscanner on Debian Woody

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Erik van der Meulen (by way of Erik van der Meulen
> <erik at avondel.com>) [mailto:erik at AVONDEL.COM]
> Envoyé : Thursday, February 19, 2004 11:27 AM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Mailscanner on Debian Woody
> 
> 
> Dear all -
> 
> I am trying to set up Mailscanner on my Debian Woody mail 
> server. On the
> Mailscanner site I have found a document that seems to explain exactly
> how to accomplish this:
> 
>    
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi-bin/faq?_highlightWords=deb
> ian&file=226
> 
> However, the mailscanner package that is currently found in 
> the unstable
> tree is not the same version as mentionned in the document (4.26.7-2
> instead of 4.24.5-1) and it does not install well at all.
> 
> If I do: dpkg --install mailscanner*.deb, I get:
> 
> Selecting previously deselected package mailscanner.
> (Reading database ... 17953 files and directories currently 
> installed.)
> Unpacking mailscanner (from mailscanner_4.26.7-2_all.deb) ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailscanner:
>   mailscanner depends on libnet-cidr-perl; however:
>     Package libnet-cidr-perl is not installed.
>     dpkg: error processing mailscanner (--install):
>     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>     mailscanner
> 

Have you tried resolving the dependencies?

hth

Ugo
> And if I try to start mailscanner later, I get:
> 
> Starting MailScanner...
> Can't locate Net/CIDR.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
> /usr/share/MailScanner
> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5
> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl .
> /usr/share/MailScanner) at 
> /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm
> line 34.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /usr/share/MailScanner/MailScanner/Config.pm line 34.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 42.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/MailScanner line 42
> 
> Now I am wondering if it would be possible to get this new mailscanner
> running on Woody at all, or if I should try to find the old package
> (4.24.5-1)?
> 
> Any suggestions much appreciated!
> 
> --
>    Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen at avondel.com>
>