mailscanner-4.85.2-3 on Debian Jessie

Kevin Miller kevin.miller at juneau.org
Thu May 14 21:52:07 UTC 2015


I just tried installing 4.85.2-3 on Jessie and got the following at the end of the process.  Apparently it didn't like that /etc/default/mailscanner didn't exist.
I created it manually.  Should I just rerun the installer?

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Installing the MailScanner .deb package ... 
Selecting previously unselected package mailscanner.
(Reading database ... 60187 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mailscanner-4.85.2-3-noarch.deb ...
cp: cannot stat '/etc/default/mailscanner': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing archive /root/Mail_Gateway/MailScanner-4.85.2-3/mailscanner-4.85.2-3-noarch.deb (--install):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /root/Mail_Gateway/MailScanner-4.85.2-3/mailscanner-4.85.2-3-noarch.deb

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Installation Error

The MailScanner package failed to install. Address the required
dependencies and run the installer again.

Note that Perl modules need to be available system-wide. A
common issue is that missing modules were installed in a 
user specific configuration.
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One thing I did do, was copy the /etc/MailScanner directory from one of my running servers so that I could easily update MailScanner.conf.  I don't know if this threw anything off - it was just the stuff in /etc/MailScanner, no binaries were on the system yet...

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller
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Juneau, Alaska 99801
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