Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Dan Carl wrote on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:27:30 -0600: > > >> If I remove the conflicting perl packages won't this break MailScanner? >> > > No. It might break your Perl, though, if it overwrote anything from Perl. > In that case you want to reinstall Perl. > Removed perl-Math-BigInt now Mailscanner won't start Glad this server isn't in production yet. I did see in the install.log for MailScanner that it did do a force install of BigInt, BigRat and bignum I remedied (not fxed) the problem by rerunning the the install.sh script and excluding bignum BigInt and BigRat from the rpmforge.repo. >> I doubt he would install them if they weren't needed. >> > > Believe me. I've been using MailScanner since long on many systems and > also on CentOS since I changed to CentOS in 2004 or so. > > >> If I uninstall the older perl package versions and install the newer >> ones from rpmforge will MailScanner still function properly? >> > > I'm not exactly sure what you mean. The point is: Perl in CentOS has quite > a few "packages" that come with MailScanner already built-in. There is > *no* need to replace them with what comes with MailScanner. These should > remain as is. > In other words: you only need to add those packages which are really > missing (from rpmforge). All the "packages" that are built-in should not > be "upgraded" at all. This are the following packages: > perl-bignum > perl-File-Spec > perl-File-Temp > perl-Getopt-Long > perl-IO > perl-Math-BigRat > perl-Test-Harness > perl-Test-Simple > > which means you do: > yum install perl-Convert-BinHex perl-Convert-TNEF perl-Convert-BinHex > perl-Convert-TNEF perl-DBD-SQLite perl-Filesys-Df perl-IO-stringy perl- > MIME-tools perl-Net-CIDR perl-OLE-Storage_Lite perl-Pod-Escapes perl-Pod- > Simple perl-Test-Pod perl-Time-HiRes > > with rpmforge enabled and then install mailscanner*.rpm (and not use > install.sh!). That's all. > > > It was too late, I already installed via the install.sh script. (I've always done it this way without any problems) I suppose now I can either... Cross my fingers and hope I won't run into any perl problems, try reinstalling perl which doesn't sound easy or wait for 5.3 to come out cause its going to fix everything. :-) Thanks for the help, next time I try installing it your way, or maybe by then it will be as easy as yum install MailScanner. Dan