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Re: Problems in Procmail package instalation

2001-12-11 00:12:18
At 10:20 2001-12-11 +0530, Kada RajaSekhar wrote:
I am trying to install Procmail 3.22 ..But its giving following dependencies
problem.

You're installing an "RPM". Read the documentation for your *nix distro and for the package you installed. If that doesn't clear things up, contact the provider of the RPM.

Procmail is not provided by _its_ maintainers as an RPM - it is provided as full sources (see <http://www.procmail.org> - note there are no RPM files there). Sources require compiling to build binaries for your system.

error: failed dependencies:
        rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 is needed by procmail-3.22-1
        rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 is needed by procmail-3.22-1
        libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)   is needed by procmail-3.22-1

Looks like you need to install a newer glibc and some other files. Go get their respective RPMs.

I don't personally believe in the environment which RPMs promote - would-be system administrators become dependant upon maintaining a system which needs to be nearly identical to the system used by the person who built the package.

The procmail list isn't the place to learn how to do builds (it is the place to learn how to use procmail - and if you have _procmail_specific_ build issues - not general "how do I run make" questions), but I'd strongly suggest that if you're planning on administering your system longterm, you should consider learning to build software from sources - not everything is available as RPMs, and RPMs lock you into often unnecessary constraints imposed by the person who created them (which again, I must stress, isn't the procmail development group).

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