At 2:16 PM -0800 3/23/02, Jesse Keating wrote:
>On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:29:16 -0800
>"Patrick Beart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> issued forth:
>
>> I'm trying to install Courier on my newest server...
>>
>> I downloaded the tarball on the Courier site. I followed the
>> directions in the FAQ for building RPM's as "non-root". That worked
>> fine on my laptop, but I get the message
>> "courier-0.37.3.20020317.tar.gz: no such file or directory" when I
>> try the command "rpm -ta courier-0.37.3.20020317.tar.gz" on the
>> server.
>
>Ok, make sure you have the rpm-build rpm installed. Whithout this, you
>can't build the rpms.
Thanks for this tip. I spent over 3 hours in "dependency
hell", but finally found the FIVE packages that were needed (and
missing on my server) to create the RPMs for Courier.
What made the difference with the successful creation on the
laptop. Same OS and version. Slightly different package combination.
(Thank the gods for "find"!)
... so much to do, so little time. ;-)
Patrick Beart
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