Niamh Holding wrote on 10/12/20 12:01 am:
rpm -ivh spamassassin-3.4.4-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
perl(BSD::Resource) is needed by spamassassin-3.4.4-1.el7.centos.x86_64
perl(Net::CIDR::Lite) is needed by
spamassassin-3.4.4-1.el7.centos.x86_64
1. The CentOS 7 repository does not contain spamassassin-3.4.4-1, nor does a
search on rpmfind show any el7 build for that version of SpamAssassin. If you
got this rpm from an unofficial source who perhaps built it from the source
rpm for Spamassassin 3.4.4 in the Fedora repo, talk to whoever did that about
how they built the package and how they install it on CentOS.
2. Using the rpm command to install a local rpm file does not automatically
install dependencies from a repo. Always use yum (or dnf in newer CentOS or in
Fedora) instead of the now old rpm program.
3. Those packages listed in the error message are available for CentOS 7 in
the EPEL repo. Often packages that are built from a source rpm that was
written for Fedora will depend on packages that are not in the main CentOS
repo but have been ported to EPEL. It is a good idea when trying to port a
package from Fedora to CentOS to install the EPEL repo so yum will also look
there for dependencies. That and using yum instead of rpm command would have
solved this particular dependency error.
4. See point 1. Even if you try suggestions based on 2 and 3, there is no
guarantee that the spamassassin-3.4.4-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm you have was
properly built.
