mailscanner-4.85.2-3 on Debian Jessie

[Jerry Benton]

You are missing some dependencies. Did you use the install.sh script? 

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On May 14, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Kevin Miller <kevin.miller at juneau.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> =======================================================================
> 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
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
> =======================================================================
> 
> 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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