The spamassassin package doesn't have perl-HTML-Parser in it's requires, but it needs it in order to run (at least, to run as a service):
A transcript follows from a cooker system installed last night: $ service spamassassin start Starting spamd: Can't locate HTML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/HTML.pm line 7. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/HTML.pm line 7. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 41. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 41. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 61. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 61. Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/spamd line 20. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/spamd line 20. [FAILED] $ $ urpmi perl-HTML-Parser To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (0 MB): perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-3mdk.i586 perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-5mdk.noarch Is this OK? (Y/n) y installing //net/10.0.0.2/data/mirrors/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-3mdk.i586.rpm //net/10.0.0.2/data/mirrors/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/perl-HTML-Tagset-3.03-5mdk.noarch.rpm Preparing... ################################################## 1:perl-HTML-Tagset ################################################## 2:perl-HTML-Parser ################################################## $ $ service spamassassin restart Shutting down spamd: [FAILED] Starting spamd: [ OK ] -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: C99E DF40 54F6 B625 FD48 B509 A3DE 8D79 541F F830