RPM-based install package for ClamAV and SpamAssassin 3

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Sep 6 16:18:49 IST 2004


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At 15:49 06/09/2004, you wrote:
>- clamav is not installed from RPM?? (Dag Wieers is making excellent
>.src.rpms for clam) http://dag.wieers.com/packages/clamav/

Yes, I couldn't remember where they were. Does his rpm install into
/usr/local/bin or /usr/bin? It's just that virus.scanners.conf assumes it
is in /usr/local/bin, so I would have to write some code to automatically
edit virus.scanners.conf for you.

>- spamass 3 is included as an rpm package whereas in the past the advise
>was not to use the rpm? do we need to clean out any files from tarball
>spamass before using this version?

The problem was always with using an RPM for it, and this is still a
problem. It's to do with the way perl is structured, and there is nothing
you can do about it.
My package includes an SRPM (source RPM) for SpamAssassin, and rebuilds the
RPM on your system so that it can guarantee to get all the directories right.

You shouldn't need to clear anything out, as it should all be in the same
place, and so will overwrite the old tarball installation.

>Thanks again for such an excellent support package!!

No problem.

>On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Julian Field wrote:
>>I have just published a package that will install ClamAV (if you want it
>>to), SpamAssassin 3 and all their dependencies, so that you can use the
>>"clamavmodule" scanner and the latest release candidate of SpamAssassin 3.
>>
>>This package contains all of the non-RPM package I published a few days
>>ago, together with an equivalent setup for RPM-based systems.
>>
>>Should help you get going nice and quickly.
>>
>>It's at
>>http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/4/install-Clam-SA.tar.gz
>>which is mentioned in the "Other stuff" bit of the downloads page on
>>www.mailscanner.info.
>>
>>Let me know if you have any problems with it.
>>I have tried it on RedHat, SuSE and Solaris systems.

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