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[Tim Ross <address@concealed>]

Hi Edd,

I didn't set up our Sympa servers originally, but I am the current admin and do our upgrades.  We are on Red Hat Linux 6.

We have kind of had to be careful over the years to make sure that Sympa was using the Sympa perl-lib directory, rather than defaulting to the system's perl-lib.  They aren't necessarily the same for us, since our Servers team maintains the system Perl Library and we maintain the Sympa Perl Library.  We download the Linux tarball onto the Sympa server and expand it in a /apps/sympa-src/ directory.  Then we use these commands (from within the expanded Sympa install directory) to install it to make sure it uses the right perl-lib:

./configure --prefix=/apps/sympa --with-modulesdir=/apps/sympa/perl-lib/

make

sudo /usr/bin/make install /apps/sympa-src/sympa-6.2.62/Makefile

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The --prefix flag may be different for you, if you want to install Sympa in a different directory that /apps.

I hope this info may provide a bit of help.

Tim Ross

Application Administrator

ITS Business Applications

Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo

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From: address@concealed <address@concealed> on behalf of Edd Ramer <address@concealed>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2021 4:55 PM
To: address@concealed <address@concealed>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [sympa-users] Sympa 6.2.62 Package Install Fails

 

I could not get version 6.2.62 source install on Ubuntu 20.04 to process inbound email commands like Distribute (message id) or Unsubscribe (list).  Everything else worked.  So I have switched to Oracle Linux 7, and started fresh.  Attached is a section of terminal responses from the command to install Sympa.  I have snipped out many of the lines to save space.  Basically the server starts processing dependencies to install Sympa.  Listing what will be installed.  It finished with "Finished Dependency Resolution" and errors out.  There are 7 Perl modules listed as missing.  Following this information are the CPAN commands to check for installed packages.  You can see that all 7 missing modules are actually installed.  I have found no way to continue short of skipping broken dependencies.  The modules are there and I don't want to have Sympa install without what is actually there.  Does anyone have suggestions on how to make this work.

Thanks,

Edd

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