Hylafax on Enterprise 3

[Will Mc Donald]

From: "Michael Scully" <agentscully at flexiblestrategies.com>
> Greetings to the list:
> 
> I've wanted to experiment with Hylafax on RH Enterprise 3 ES.  I've
> had it working on earlier RH releases (7 and 8).  When I try and install a
> rpm from the hylafax.org site, it fails due to a dependency on metamail.
> Metamail hasn't been part of Red Hat's distributions for some time now.
> Does anyone know a work-around?  Is there a metamail rpm that will install
> on RH E3?  Or is there a way to trick the rpm into ignoring the dependency?

--nodeps will force rpm to ignore dependencies, you may need to use --force as well. Of course, then there's no guarantee that Hylafax will work as expected. 

Could you build metamail (and perhaps Hylafax) from source? 

http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/~trey/emacs/metamail.html

Will.