mailscanner 4.85.2 on ubuntu server 16.04 lts

Wed Apr 27 21:51:27 UTC 2016

Ok. Seems something has changed with the package, which is not surprising. Force install it:

dpkg --force-all -i mailscanner-4.85.2-3-noarch.deb

-
Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com

> On Apr 27, 2016, at 5:48 PM, Patrick Goupell <patrick at yoopermail.us> wrote:
> 
> perl-modules are already installed, note from the original post
> 
> Preparing to unpack .../mailscanner-4.85.2-3-noarch.deb ...
> Unpacking mailscanner (4.85.2-3) ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailscanner:
> mailscanner depends on perl-modules (>= 5.8.7); however:
> Package perl-modules is not installed.
> Version of perl-modules on system, provided by perl-modules-5.22:all, is <none>.   <===***
> 
> 
> but trie it anyway
> 
> apt-get update
> Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [92.2 kB]
> Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
> Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
> Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [93.3 kB]
> Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
> Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages [25.8 kB]
> Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [22.0 kB]
> Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main i386 Packages [25.8 kB]
> Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main Translation-en [8,356 B]
> Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [21.9 kB]
> Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Translation-en [8,908 B]
> Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages [3,932 B]
> Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe i386 Packages [3,920 B]
> Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe Translation-en [2,328 B]
> Fetched 308 kB in 3s (83.7 kB/s)
> Reading package lists... Done
> root at ubuntu:/home/patrick# apt-get install perl-modules
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Note, selecting 'perl-modules-5.22' instead of 'perl-modules'
> perl-modules-5.22 is already the newest version (5.22.1-9).
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 04/27/2016 05:27 PM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>> try:
>> 
>> apt-get update
>> apt-get install perl-modules
>> 
>> 
>> -
>> Jerry Benton
>> www.mailborder.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 5:24 PM, Patrick Goupell <patrick at yoopermail.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Here are the terminal commands I used:
>>> 
>>>    wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/mailscanner/release/v4/deb/MailScanner-4.85.2-3.deb.tar.gz
>>>    tar -xvf MailScanner*.tar.gz
>>>    cd MailScanner*
>>>    ./install.sh
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 04/27/2016 04:39 PM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>>>> Use the install script that comes with the package.
>>>> 
>>>> -
>>>> Jerry Benton
>>>> www.mailborder.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Apr 27, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Patrick Goupell <patrick at yoopermail.us> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am trying to setup mailscanner on ubuntu 16.04 lts using the install package at
>>>>> https://s3.amazonaws.com/mailscanner/release/v4/deb/MailScanner-4.85.2-3.deb.tar.gz
>>>>> 
>>>>> During install I get the folow messages
>>>>> 
>>>>> Preparing to unpack .../mailscanner-4.85.2-3-noarch.deb ...
>>>>> Unpacking mailscanner (4.85.2-3) ...
>>>>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailscanner:
>>>>> mailscanner depends on perl-modules (>= 5.8.7); however:
>>>>>  Package perl-modules is not installed.
>>>>>  Version of perl-modules on system, provided by perl-modules-5.22:all, is <none>.
>>>>> 
>>>>> dpkg: error processing package mailscanner (--install):
>>>>> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>>>> Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
>>>>> Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
>>>>> Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu4) ...
>>>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>>> mailscanner
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> 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.
>>>>> 
>>>>> If I do an apt-cache search perl-modules I get the following
>>>>> 
>>>>> libperl5.22 - shared Perl library
>>>>> perl-base - minimal Perl system
>>>>> perl-modules-5.22 - Core Perl modules
>>>>> kamailio-perl-modules - Perl extensions and database driver for Kamailio
>>>>> libnet-smtpauth-perl - Perl module that provides SMTP authentication (Net::SMTP_auth)
>>>>> 
>>>>> What do I do now?
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Patrick Goupell
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>>> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>>> http://lists.mailscanner.info/listinfo/mailscanner
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Patrick Goupell
>>> 
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>>> 
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>>> http://lists.mailscanner.info/listinfo/mailscanner
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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> Patrick Goupell
> 
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