Re: dependency problems w/mailscanner

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:08, Kevin MacNeil wrote:
> I'm using sendmail, procmail, spamassassin, mailscanner and clamav to
> process incoming mail. Now apt is complaining about unmet perl
> dependencies, even though I've already installed all of the required
> modules through CPAN. I even tried to install the offending module
> anyway, but according to rpm -q it doesn't seem to be getting installed.
> 
> Is there some way to tell mailscanner to forget about the perl rpms that
> ship with it, since it doesn't need them anyway?
> 
> 
> [root localhost MailScanner-4.23-10]# rpm -Uvh
> perl-MIME-tools-5.411-pl4.2.src.rpm
> 1:perl-MIME-tools        ########################################### [100%]
> 
> [root localhost MailScanner-4.23-10]# rpm -q perl-MIME-tools
> package perl-MIME-tools is not installed
> 
> [root localhost MailScanner-4.23-10]# apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> mailscanner: Depends: perl-MIME-tools (>= 5.411) but it is not installable
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> 

You installed the src rpm rather than the regular rpm.  you could build
a rpm from the src one :

rpmbuild --rebuild perl-MIME-tools-5.411-pl4.2.src.rpm 


ind install it 
or install the actual perl-MIME-tools rpm if you have it.

hth

Bret