Hi Kris, Thank-you for the advice. I downloaded those 3 packages from http://dag.wieers.com, rebuilt, and installed them for my distro. Now I can upgrade my spamassassin-3.2.4-1. Many thanx to all of you guys. GBU.
Regards, On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Kris Deugau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try "rpm -q perl-HTML-Parser" or "rpm -q 'perl(HTML::Parser)'". You'll > either get nothing, or a version number less than SA requires. When > installing from packages, don't assume the package manager knows about > ANYTHING you've done elsewhere (eg CPAN). > > If you install Perl modules from source/CPAN, install all third-party > Perl tools and utilities from source or CPAN. > > If you install Perl modules via the system's package system, you can > usually get along fine with source/CPAN installs of things like SA > (unless it "requires" a newer version of something - rare, but it > happens sometimes). It does NOT, as you're seeing, work very well the > other way around. > > Personally, I prefer using the package system as it keeps all of the > software installation in one place. > > -kgd >