Re: [cobalt-users] Installing SpamAssassin on a Qube3

[Rick Eames <athos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I don't think I was smart enough to say no, so it went through 
the entire thing.  So I have a weird situation now.  The /usr/bin/perl 
is the old one, but it installed the new 5.8 perl somewhere else.  I 
dont' know enough about this to know what I just did.  Any advice right 
now would be helpful.

In 3 days, I got 400 spam messages in my account, and the same is for 
other users.  All I want is to cut that down.  I went to install 
SpamAssassin, and of course it has 10,000 dependancies, and there are 
no good instructions anywhere for installing everything I need, so in 
trying to make it work myself, I just hosed it.

*sigh*

I JUST WANT THE SPAM TO GO AWAY.  Why is this so freakin' hard?

On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 06:54 AM, Parker Morse wrote:

> It wants to upgrade your perl, but IIRC you can say "no" to the perl 
> upgrade and it will still download and install the required modules 
> while leaving perl alone. This happened to me when I installed 
> SpamAssassin and I managed to escape with my Qube unscathed, which is 
> something of a miracle considering, well, me.