mailscanner 4.85.2 on ubuntu server 16.04 lts

Wed Apr 27 22:54:09 UTC 2016

I stood up an Ubuntu 16 server. Totally unsurprised, they changed a package name again. I am surprised the guys packaging clamav didn’t change the user it runs under again. Since like … they have changed it 4 or 5 times over the years. 

Note, selecting 'perl-modules-5.22' instead of 'perl-modules'
perl-modules-5.22 is already the newest version (5.22.1-9).

You will have to force install MailScanner on Ubuntu 16 or select the “ignore dependencies” option when asked in the setup script. I will update the debian control file for MailScanner v5. I am not going to bother with v4. 

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com

> On Apr 27, 2016, at 5:51 PM, Jerry Benton <jerry.benton at mailborder.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Patrick Goupell
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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>> 
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