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Duh, I guess I haven't had enough coffee today, or maybe I've had too
much. LOL

Anyway, I did install perl-5.8.6 and it installed in the /usr/local/
prefix. So I moved everything down to the /usr prefix. Is there
somewhere that I need to change this so that the PERL5PATH points to
/usr/lib instead of /usr/local/lib? This may very well be my issue. Thanks.

Sean

David Lee wrote:

> The RPM mechanism should, and does, work on RH 7.3.  And MailScanner
> installs nicely with it.
>
> I suggest you look at the "./install.sh" script, and try to work out why
> it believes that your particular system doesn't have RPM.  (You can
> run it
> as "sh -x ./install.sh"  to see what it is doing.)  There's something not
> right, and investigating it should help.
>
> Once you have resolved this, then there is a chance that the remaining
> problems may automatically fix themselves.  But see also below.
>
> MS does seem to want to rebuild various modules.  In general, on a
> cleanly
> running system, you wouldn't need to worry about this.  But (see above
> and
> below) I suspect that your system has a few peculiarities which are
> significantly, and adversely, influencing things.
>
> Glancing through the log file you attached (most useful!), I saw near the
> top that it found only one version of perl (good) in "/usr/bin" (good).
> But then I noticed references to "/usr/local/lib/perl...".  This feels
> inconsistent, as though you might have (or have had) two version of perl:
> 1. a preferred one in "/usr/bin" and "/usr/lib";
> 2. a second one, or its residue, in "/usr/local/bin" and
> "/usr/local/lib".
>
> Do (or did) you have a second perl installation at "/usr/local/bin/perl"?
> Your MS installation would have detected this and advised against it.
> Perhaps you then removed that binary so that MS passed this "two version"
> test, but your perl is still, for some reason, finding the remnants of
> the
> non-preferred "/usr/local/" version.
>
> So if you have both a "/usr/lib/perl..." and a "/usr/local/lib/perl...",
> (or remnants) then you should consider trying to remove the "/usr/local"
> version completely.
>
> If you really have and need both these paths on the machine, then you are
> entering territory outside the recommended norms, where relatively few of
> us on this list have trodden before.  You could probably still succeed,
> but the chances are that you'll need to get to grips understanding the
> particular details of your perls on your machine, which only you (not us)
> can do.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
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>
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