On Aug 10, 2004, at 2:00 PM, Ted Beaton wrote:
I have been trying to install first Cyrus IMAP and then Courier IMAP and I keep getting tied up in package dependencies. Some piece I'm installing will require a newer version of a package already on my machine. I search and find the newer version and try to install it and then there will be 6 or 7 other packages that are dependent on the older version so I need to upgrade them and it goes on and on. I find myself in a geometrically expanding vicious circle. I'm sure I'm overlooking something obvious here. Maybe I shouldn't be trying to install on RedHat 9, maybe I'm leaving something out when I install RedHat 9. Is there any manageable way to know all of what I need and what all the dependencies are for them at the outset? Sometimes I can't even find a version of a package required for RedHat 9. I could force a package to install but I have no idea what problems that may cause later on. The overall goal is to get the courier-0.46.tar.bz2 tar ball to build and install.
Courier-IMAP is one of the easiest installations I've ever performed (of mailserver software). I think your problem is that you're trying to install the entire Courier project, rather than just the Courier-IMAP subproject.
http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/
Here is how to install Courier-IMAP on a Red Hat system. You don't have to use the user "jason" to build, but it must be a non-root user.
useradd jason passwd jason su jason cd mkdir $HOME/rpm mkdir $HOME/rpm/SOURCES mkdir $HOME/rpm/SPECS mkdir $HOME/rpm/BUILD mkdir $HOME/rpm/SRPMS mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS/i386 echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpm" >> $HOME/.rpmmacros rpmbuild -ta courier-imap-3.0.7.tar.bz2 sudo rpm -ivh /home/jason/rpm/RPMS/i386/courier*rpm
HTH.
-- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net
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