On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 10:20 -0700, Emily Stumpf wrote: > Hello, > > Hope this is the right place for this question, but please let me know > if its not. > > I'm trying to install rt via yum. I've followed the directions here: > http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?RPMInstall > > Basically it said to add this to my yum.conf: > > --- cut here --- > [xtra-rt] > name=eXtra packages, updates and rt itself > baseurl=http://campus.fct.unl.pt/paulomatos/rt/repository > --- end here --- > > ... and then run this: > yum install rt rt-mail-dispatcher > > So, the first few times I ran it, I got messages telling me that various > perl modules that I needed were not installed, and one by one I grabbed > them from cpan.org and installed them. Then rpm (the rpmdb) is not aware of them. you need to install the rpms that provide these modules, not the tarballs. > Well, there is one called Mail::SpamAssassin that it wanted, that I have > installed, that I have verified in perl is already installed and seems > to be accessable. However, this is what yum gives me: > > [root@notphilo emily]# yum install rt rt-mail-dispatcher > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: eXtra packages, updates and rt itself > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > Resolving dependencies > ......Unable to satisfy dependencies > Package rt needs perl(Mail::SpamAssassin), this is not available. > [root@notphilo emily]# > > > Grr! So, I know its there, but yum isn't picking up on that I guess. Is > there some way for me to tell it to ignore dependancies, or get around > this somehow..? Yum doesn't have an --ignore-deps option, no. -sv
