Installing Exim
Hi,
I am having problem installing Exim. Actually I am very new to Linux and don't know the correct step for installation of software from source. I download exim from ftp://ftp.gr-linux.com/pub/exim/exim...im-4.62.tar.gz Now, I don't know to install exim using this ? Please anyone give full step for doing this....Please Please Please Please * 10000 * 10000 :D Thanks * 10000000000000000000000000 |
Hi,
oooooooops I forget to tell that I am installing it on CentOS 3.6 and to my bad luck it already has sendmail working on it, which I don't want to use. So you can also suggest a way to remvoe or replace that Thanks again :) |
if you do not feel comfortable installing from source then don't. find a prebuilt package for your distro. but as you didn't even tell us what distro you are using we can't tell you where to get one from.
and please drop all that * 10000 nonsense... |
right ok. so use the exim rpm's from the centos yum repositories that should already be configured on your system. if it's not available through that, google for "centos exim rpm" and you'll get one from somewhere like rpm.pbone.net
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Hi,
First y drop "nosense" ..:) Anyways, I need to install it from source only. As I need to observe few things and Now since I don't know about this, I will sure want to Learn doing that. I am very much comfortable when I install PHP or Apache from source as I do configure , make . But for exim I cannot do configure and stuff, so not getting how to install it. Please suggest a way out. I mean there can many source on how to install from source, just let me know some of general way to compile a project, and do installation. Thanks |
generic tarball instructions will apply as normal. if you ran a ./configure, make, make install for php and apache then you can just do the same for exim. if there is a particular reason you can't do this for exim, you need to tell us what that reason is.
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Hi,
I move a step forward in doing this .. As in README for exim it is give that I copy src/EDITME to Local/Makefile and than run make command ... when I did that I got this Code:
[root@Sumit exim-4.62]# make |
Hi,
I got two steps further Code:
gcc -DCOMPILE_UTILITY spool_in.c Please suggest now |
looks like you are missing db-devel, which should be on your distro cd's. again consider sticking to rpm's unless you have a good reason to do otherwise.
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Hi,
I have a good reason, that I want to learn Linux, I am working on a project that need me to learn all the ifs and buts of linux. Secondly, this is my personnaly believe that linux softwares are best when install from scratch, i.e. you compile them and run. third, according to my two objective above, compile and installation is the best method to learn linux's basic working :o) In future I will try to complie Kernel even..but for now only exim :D Well I search for db-devel for my centos but i didn't find any relevant package,Though I check my PC for db-devel and found this Code:
[root@Sumit exim-4.62]# rpm -qa | grep db also I found db4-devel if its the one you are talking about. Please suggest |
Hi,
I install db4-devel package and it goes to next step .. though its again an error, but I will try to do it first my own and if any error found I will put it here for you ... till than bye Thanks acid_kewpie . You Guilded me correct way, But I love if you use little soft words ...for newbies But Good to get response from a experince person like you.. Thanks a lot |
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