Zlib and zleb-devel missing, what's unrar, and do I care?

[G. Armour Van Horn]

Thanks, Phil, that worked.

Van

On 17/02/2010 05:13, Randal, Phil wrote:
> You'll find unrar on rpmforge's yum repository.
>
> I'm using clamav / clamd from the same repository, rather than from
> Jules' tarball.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of G.
> Armour Van Horn
> Sent: 17 February 2010 11:02
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Zlib and zleb-devel missing, what's unrar, and do I care?
>
> I just started setting up a new server, which meant a fresh install of
> MailScanner.
>
> I ran the RPM-based installer, as I'm running CentOS, and also used the
> ClamAV 0.95.3/SpamAssassin 3.3.0 installer.
>
> MailScanner reported that there were no AV scanners installed,
> suggesting frequently in maillog that this wasn't a really bright idea
> on my part. I reran the Clam/SA installer a couple of times before
> noticing that it bitched about zlib and zlib-devel not being installed
> early in the process and just kept running until the final success,
> which actually wasn't success at all. Manually installing those allowed
> the install to run, and MailScanner stopped bitching about it. I would
> think that if these elements are central to the installer running, and
> if RHEL/CentOS don't consider them part of the basic install, that they
> ought to be included in the installer (a ton of other things are), or at
> the very least the installer ought to exit at that point with a clear
> message about the trivial fix. (yum install zlib zlib-devel)
>
> So MS is running merrily along. However, it keeps carping about
> "/usr/sbin/unrar does not exist or is not executable". Okay, it doesn't
> exist. So off to "yum provides */unrar", and learn that it doesn't exist
> in the CentOS universe, apparently. Now what?
>
> Van
>    

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