Topic: Spamassassin Install Problems (failed dependencies)

[Dan Williams]

Hi,
I have searched the forums and can not see where anyone else has encounterd the folowing error when installing spamassassin.
My E-Smith machine is 5.5 u 6.02 (rpm -q SMEServer)
This is the error:
error: failed dependencies:
        perl(HTML::Parser) is needed by perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.52-1
Any assistance greatly appreciated.
Dan

[Ray Mitchell]

At a guess you may be installing a version that was not designed for v5.5 ie Greg Zartmann's contrib which was for v5.6.
I see on contribs.org that someone (forget who it was but have a look) has released an improved version that works OK on v5.5

If that's not the case for you, then the message is saying that another rpm is needed that is not already on your system (ie a parser). This parser issue was answered many months ago on these forums I think it was by Charlie Brady around the time Greg Zartman released his contrib, do a search on Parser (all dates).

Hope this helps
Ray

[Patrick T Hickey]

Just do an install for this particular module with nodeps and it'll work fine.

regards,

patrick

[Dan Williams]

Hello,
Thanks for the reply's.
I understand that in some cases the nodeps will get around that, but it always concerns me.
What I did was after reading Ray's e-mail I went to contribs.org, and grabbed all the files from here:
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/jprice/beta/e-smith-spamassassin/
I then reviewed the install script, and then ran the script with absolutely no errors.
Perhaps this will help anyone else who has had this issue as well.
Thanks,
Dan

[Ray Mitchell]

Dan
That's a good result, and those are the rpms I was referring to for v5.5.
Just out of interest which were the original rpms you were trying to instal. Were they the Greg Zartmann ones for v5.6 ??

Regs
Ray