rpm or tar install?

[Julian Field]

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It is failing to build the MIME-tools for some reason, you need to look
at that and work out why. I would not advise just sticking with the
(very) old version. You need to look at why it is failing on your
system. The output from the ./install.sh script, while it is trying to
build perl-MIME-tools, will tell you what is going wrong.

Matt Kehler wrote:

> Well, 4.33.3-1 seems to install fine as long as I put
> perl-MIME-tools-5.411-pl4.3.noarch.rpm into
> /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch prior to install.  Tried to install
> 4.41.3-1 after that, still no go. Same errors.  Any ideas?  Or should
> I just quit and stick with 4.33.3-1?
>
> MK
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Thanks.  I get the following on RH ES4 when trying to install via
> RPM..tried to update Convert::BinHex and Mime::Tools manually
> beforehand but it doesn't seem to work.  Any ideas?  Funny thing is
> that halfway through the install it looks like Mime::Tools gets
> installed fine, as well as Convert::BinHex...
>
>
> error: Failed dependencies:
>       perl(Convert::BinHex) is needed by perl-MIME-tools-5.417-1.noarch
>
> Oh good, module Convert::TNEF version 0.17 is already installed.
>
> Oh good, module Compress::Zlib version 1.33 is already installed.
>
> Oh good, module Archive::Zip version 1.14 is already installed.
>
> Installing tnef decoder
>
> Preparing...
> ########################################### [100%]
>         package tnef-1.2.3.1-1 is already installed
>
> Now to install MailScanner itself.
>
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         perl-MIME-tools >= 5.412 is needed by mailscanner-4.41.3-1.noarch
>
> Matt
>
> >>> MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK 5/6/2005 10:33:23 AM >>>
> RPM, no question.
>
> On 6 May 2005, at 16:08, Matt Kehler wrote:
>
> > I'm building a new MS box on RH ES4.  What is the preferrred/better
> > method of install, via rpm or manually?
>
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> Julian Field
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> Electronics & Computer Science
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