Missing dependency libpisock.so.8 for evolution

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 15:01 -0400, Gerry Doris wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Savoie" <psavoie1783 at rogers.com>
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Missing dependency libpisock.so.8 for evolution
> 
> 
> > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 22:25, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 19:59 -0400, Erik Hemdal wrote:
> >> > Software Updater fails to apply updates on my system because an update
> >> > for evolution requires libpisock.so.8.  Same thing happens with a
> >> > conventional 'yum update' -- the dependency check fails.
> >> >
> >> > My system has libpisock.so.9 installed with the pilot-link package.
> >> > It's a fresh install of FC5.  This is only the second yum update I have
> >> > run on the machine.  So that explains why the dependency is missing, 
> >> > but
> >> > not how it came about.  Is this due to a conflict between evolution and
> >> > pilot-link; a user error; or a packaging problem somewhere along the
> >> > line?
> >> >
> >> > Can't find anything in the recent list postings, which is why I'm
> >> > posting.  Anyone else see this?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks!   Erik
> >>
> >>      Yes, I have seen the same thing but at this time, I don't know how
> >> to resolve this.
> >
> > I just waited an hour and updated again.  No error this time.
> >
> > Phil
> 
> This is likely more a yum question than evolution but here goes...
> 
> I've installed spamassassin 3.11 via CPAN.  This is a level higher than 
> what's available using yum.  I would like to update evolution but yum 
> insists that I need to install spamassassin first.  Is there any way to 
> force the install using yum?  I suppose I could download all the rpm 
> packages (there are several needed to resolve dependencies) and install them 
> manually but would prefer to have yum take care of it. 

Are you on FC4? FC5 has spamassassin 3.1.1.

Paul.