RE: [CSCMail-Users] Problems Installing

[Richard P. <ao...@ds...>]

Thanks for this. I have subsequently upgraded to RedHat 8.0, which comes
with an e-mail program. It has really s....l....o....w....e....d  my
system down though. Not unlike upgrading Windows on an older machine!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Schregenberger [mailto:np...@gm...] 
> Sent: 07 March 2003 11:38
> To: Richard Poynder
> Cc: Mailinglist: CSCMail
> Subject: RE: [CSCMail-Users] Problems Installing
> 
> 
> 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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