rpm installation and dependencies
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Jul 8 14:54:48 UTC 2005
sasa wrote:
> Hi, I have a prboblem with Fedora Core 3 and spamassassin installation, when execute:
>
> [root at test ~]# rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4.tar.gz
> error: Failed build dependencies:
> perl(Digest::SHA1) is needed by spamassassin-3.0.4-1.i386
> [root at test ~]# cpan
> Terminal does not support AddHistory.
>
> cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.7601)
> ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN')
>
> cpan> install Digest::SHA1
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok
> Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
> Database was generated on Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:03:59 GMT
> Digest::SHA1 is up to date.
>
> cpan> quit
> Terminal does not support GetHistory.
> Lockfile removed
>
> ..before of to install Mail-SpamAssassin I have installed Digest::SHA1, therefore because I have an error ??
> thanks.
Simpler method for installing spamassassin is:
# yum install spamassassin
Regarding the dependency issue, RPM dependencies can only be solved by
installing RPM packages, e.g. the perl-Digest-SHA1 package. Installing
the module from CPAN won't help.
Paul.
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