Installation order

[adam]

Thanks Julian, and Scott for the link to the HOWTO.

adam


Julian Field wrote:
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> adam wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to install MailScanner on CentOS 5.1, but after a couple of
>> attempts I'm confused about what order I should be installing in.
>>
>> I assumed that the best approach would be Razor & DCC, then SpamAssassin
>> and Clam from the developer's packages, then MailScanner rpms. The
>> messages output by MailScanner and the SA set seem to conflict though.
> That's pretty much completely backwards.
> Install MailScanner first.
> Then either ClamAV+SpamAssassin from my combined package, or else ClamAV 
> from RPMs at dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/clamav and then SpamAssassin 
> alone from my combined package (it will ask you if you want it to 
> install ClamAV when you run it, just say "n").
> Then DCC.
> Then Razor.
> Using my package to install SpamAssassin will do a lot of the 
> configuration of it for you, along with installing all the 
> pre-requisites automatically.
> 
>> Additionally, it looks like when you yum update CentOS 5.1 some of the
>> perl module packages are removed as they've been incorporated into the
>> main perl packages, which confuses the MailScanner installer!
> Do a "yum update" before you start doing anything. When you later want 
> to upgrade Perl (which doesn't mean doing every little patch they 
> produce), uninstall the clashing RPMs (yum update will tell you what 
> they are), then "yum update" then reinstall MailScanner, which will 
> replace the RPMs you removed. Fairly simple really :-)
> 
> Jules
> 
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