Hi all, I believe you are quite correct. I had to do it manually for more than that too, I believe IO::Socket::SSL and Mail::POP3Client required the same procedure (at least for mandriva). This is tricky, perhaps we should opt to comment out the gmail support in the server ? But, I have found a nice little gem in Holland: MCNlive Its a very nice live distro and I will remaster that and put a pskmail server and client on it. That should be a much better live distro and should help the beginner quite a lot. 73 de Per, sm0rwo tor 2006-12-07 klockan 22:10 +0100 skrev Rein Couperus PA0R: > Hi Jim, > > you found the tricky bit... it has taken me quite some time to get this > working. The key is to install the right version of OpenSSL, it will not > work with the version provided by the UBUNTU distribution. Also > Openssl-0.9.8d did not work, I had to install openssl-0.9.7d to make it > work (don't ask me why). > > If I remember correctly I had to manually make/make install SSLeay (in > the .cpan/build/Net_SSLeay-1.30 directory). > After that installation was easy. > > (Per, please correct me if I am wrong...) > > 73, > > Rein PA0R > > > On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 09:42 -0500, Jim Campbell wrote: > > I am attempting to install the PSKMail Server on my Ubuntu Edgy system. > > I have previously installed the client. Since I am new to Ubuntu it > > wasn't easy but I did get it done. > > > > All goes well until I get to the step "cpan NET::SSLeay". The following > > is the last portion of the output from that step: > > > > CPAN.pm: Going to build F/FL/FLORA/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.30.tar.gz > > > > Checking for OpenSSL-0.9.6j or 0.9.7b or newer... > > I could not find your OpenSSL in `INSTALLDIRS=site' > > Please provide OpenSSL-0.9.6j or > > OpenSSL-0.9.7b installation directory (get from > > http://www.openssl.org/ if you don't have it; please note that > > SSLeay is no longer supported, see README) (C-c to abort): > > > > I have tried setting an environment variable INSTALLDIRS with a pointer > > to the OpenSSL install directory but nothing changed. I then set > > INSTALLDIRS as an environment variable pointing to the OpenSSL binary, > > again with no success. > > > > Any help with this would be much appreciated. > > > > Jim Campbell > > W4BQP > > > > > > > >