Bug 90845 - installing spamassassin on 7.2
Summary: installing spamassassin on 7.2
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeff Johnson
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-05-14 16:47 UTC by aviral pandey
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-05-14 16:55:50 UTC
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Description aviral pandey 2003-05-14 16:47:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
when installing spamassassin, it asks for perl.... which when i try to install
it asks for perl HTML parser which is alredy installed on my machine.

how can i install an rpm without having root permission

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Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-05-14 16:55:50 UTC 
The answer to your question is basically "You can't."

What you can do instead, if missing some component,
is extract the missing component from the payload
using
    rpm2cpio foo(.rpm | cpio -dim
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