RE: [CSCMail-Users] Problems Installing

[Daniel S. <np...@gm...>]

Richard Poynder wrote:

> I think you are right. It seems CSCMail is no longer being developed,
> and the work	redirected to Pronto, so I have shifted to trying to
> install that. Things went more smoothly, but again I got stuck at the
> last point! At the very end I get a message along the lines of:
> 
>  Sh: CD/root/prontobuild URI-1.19: no such file or directory

This is the same problem: version numbers are hardcoded in the installer
script. You need to change that. If I managed to search for the right thing on
www.cpan.org URI has now version 1.23
It shouldn't be too hard to change this in the installer script.

> I assumed that I needed to install URI 1.19, which I think I found OK as
> an RPM on the web. But when I try to run the URI RPM I get a message
> about failed dependencies, and a statement that it needs Perl 5.6. I
> have the necessary version of Perl on my machine, but the URI RPM
> doesn't seem to find it. How do I get it to find Perl when I run the rpm
> command?

I'm not sure if installing the RPM will help, since the installer still won't
find the directory. But maybe it detects that you have a recent version of URI
then and doesn't try to install one by itself.
If you think you've got all the stuff that was named as a failed dependency,
you can try to install the rpm with the --nodeps flag. This will install it
even if dependencies fail.

> Thanks for all your help.

No Problem.

-- Daniel


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