On Red Hat Linux use cyrus-imapd RPMs (was: Perl 5.8 and Cyrus Imap)

[Temp]

> On 14 Mar 2003, temp at tl165.net writes:
>
> > I run cyradm in RedHat 7.2, perl-5.6
> > and just get these:
> >
> > Can't locate Cyrus/IMAP/Shell.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .).
> > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
>
> I suggest that you completely remove your attempted hand-compiled
> cyrus installation, and use the Red Hat RPMs from
>
>   http://home.teleport.ch/simix/

not exactly right, I just install tarball cyrus-sasl 1.5 before,
then I install cyrus-imap-2.1 more than twice. and I think every time
the newer shall replace the older files, will it ??

I never use rpm or srpm package of cyrus-imap and cyrus-sasl.

>
> instead.  Simon Matter already did the work of configuring cyrus to
> work well with Red Hat if you use these RPMs instead of trying to
> configure cyrus by hand yourself.
>
> If for some special reason you really *need* to hand compile cyrus,
> then at least grab his cyrus-imapd SRPM, unpack it, and look
> carefully through the patches and .spec file to see how it was done.
>
> Jonathan
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