Install error after updating perl

[Scott Silva]

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Alan wrote:
> Today I installer perl 5.8.5 by compiling the source on my MS server. The
> install seemed to go fine, and 'perl -v' now reports the new version. This
> is the only perl on my server, I removed the prior version. When I now
> install MS from the rpm distribution, I get this error:
>
> error: failed dependencies:
>         perl >= 5.005 is needed by mailscanner-4.34.4-1
>         /usr/bin/perl   is needed by mailscanner-4.34.4-1
>
> Note that /usr/bin/perl exists:
>
> # ls -l /usr/bin/perl
> -rwxr-xr-x    3 root     root       941914 Sep 20 13:56 /usr/bin/perl
>
> and it is a version >= 5.005
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks!
It is an RPM dependency problem. RPM doesn't check outside of its own
installed database for dependencies. You would either need a perl RPM of
that version, or try install.sh --nodeps.

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