[NTLUG:Discuss] Installing Spamassassin on Suse

[Terry Henderson]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 09:33:15 -0800, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 27 November 2004 07:02, Chuck wrote:
> 
> 
> > Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
> > >So the next stop was http://spamassassin.apache.org
> > >they had tar.gz format, tar.bz2 format, and zip format.  Somewhere i read
> > >there was a problem installing these format with packages because of
> > >dependencies.
> >
> > This Googled up as a source for the RPM package for Spamassassin:
> >
> > http://ftp.lug.ro/suse/people/choeger/spamassassin/RPM/
> >
> > Pick your version of Suse and download the rpms.  If you double click on
> > them in Konqueror I believe Yast2 will open and install them.
> >
> > When I tried Suse there seemed to be a problem with getting the ftp servers
> > to work.  After trying about six I found one that it would connect to, but
> > I don't have that information anymore.
> 
> I think you assume I know more than I do.
> 
> I double clicked on the links for 9.1 and i586 and when it said open with what
> package I said YAST.  It Downloaded something and went away.  I did it on
> both the perl-spamassassin... and the spamassassin... I don't know what
> happened. It does not show up in YAST.

[I assume your using Mozilla or Mozilla-FireFox as your browser.]
Mozilla:
Click 'Tools' --> Download manager --> Show file location
Mozilla-Firefox:
Cick 'Tools' --> Downloads --> Open
In Mozilla-Firefox you control where and how files are downloaded:
Edit --> Preferences --> Downloads
(I prefer option: "Ask me where to save every file")

Mozilla it's:
Edit --> Preferences --> Navigation --> Downloads
and the options are [only]:
Open the download manager
Open a progress dialog
Don't open anything
But the default is your home directory. 



> 
> If I copy it down, where do I put it so YAST can find it?
> 
> Same with any RPM?
> 
> I found a boat load of RPM's on
> ftp://ftp.empiricalnetworks.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.1/rpm/i586/
> I tried double clicking on the spamassassin and yast said  I needed
> perl-spamassassin. I double clicked on perl-spamassassin and it said I needed
> two other packages.  Do I have to step through all of the packages manually?
> I thought the whole idea of RPM's was to keep you from doing that.
> 
> Kip

RPM is an acronym for Redhat Package Manager  and uses command line
options, most common of which is -i (install).
i.e.
# rpm -i packagename.rpm
Will install an application.