Installing MailScanner on SuSE 9

[Julian Field]

See
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/perl.shtml

At 23:26 26/03/2004, you wrote:
>I tried to install Mailscanner on SuSE 9.0 a week ago but I got a list of
>errors. I tried to install all packages I could think of to pass the errors.
>I didn't succed. Maybe I just didn't find the right one. I realy like to use
>SuSE 9.0 and SuSE 9.1 when Novell releases that at the end of April and get
>rid of RedHat.
>
>I searched for your email with the list of modules you installed. I wasn't
>able to find it. Can you recall what modules it was?
>
>Daniel
>Mailsystem Sweden (+46 70 6660755)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kai Schaetzl" <maillists at CONACTIVE.COM>
>To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 2:31 PM
>Subject: Re: Installing MailScanner on SuSE 9
>
>
> > Julian Field wrote on         Wed, 24 Mar 2004 13:44:19 +0000:
> >
> > > Has anyone done this?
> > > What hackery did you have to do to make the installation procedure work?
> > >
> > > I want to fix the problems, but I am getting some very strange errors
>that
> > > a SuSE expert may know how to handle. It doesn't want to build the SRPMs
>at
> > > all, just gives me "ERROR: EMPTY FILE LIST" errors after getting the
>build
> > > paths all wrong.
> > >
> >
> > Julian, I installed MailScanner 4.26.8-1 some weeks ago on Suse 9.0. I
>didn't
> > upgrade yet, because I didn't feel like upgrading every two days for a
> > problem which doesn't hit us, anyway :-) The only problem I had with the
> > installation where a number of error messages with the supplied rpm perl
> > packages barking that they needed "perl >= 5.0something". I installed the
> > three or four problem packages then via yast2 and the ones that are not
> > coming prepackaged with Suse via the CPAN shell. Then I ran the MS install
> > again and everything's working really nice. I think one of my first
>messages
> > to this mailing list listed the problem packages. Apart from that, no
> > problems. Actually, I would prefer a way where I only have a list of the
> > necessary Perl modules, install them all via CPAN and then only install
> > Mailscanner and nothing else. Can I just do that?
> >
> > From your question you are not installing but actually building the
>src.rpm?
> > I have not much experience with building rpms, just a little. But I can
>try
> > on one of our systems if you want to send me the source and instructions.
> >
> >
> > Kai
> >
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> > Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany
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> >

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