On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 03:44:26PM +0000, Pete typed : > Hello all, > > If I can just say first of all that I have SpamAssassin working on my system > and I'm very happy with it. However, I am curious as to why I can't get > every optional module installed as well. I probably don't need them all, but > anyway ... > > OS = Slackware 10.2 (2.4.31) > > SpamAssassin = 3.1.0 > > Perl = 5.8.7 >
[..] > On a fresh install of Slackware, I will typically use MCPAN to get > SpamAssassin. In the past, this has worked flawlessly. But for some reason > now, I cannot obtain and install certain modules. The most annoying of which > is Net::DNS. I say 'annoying' as when I start spamd (daemonised), I get the > following error : > > [5742] error: Can't locate Net/DNS.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i486-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 > /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i486-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7 > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 86. > > As Net::DNS isn't installed, I'm guessing that's the reason for this error. [..] FWIW, I have installed SpamAssassin 3.0.0 from Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.0.tar.bz2 (after first uninstalling SpamAssassin 3.1.0) and do not get the above error anymore. Regards, Pete.
