Hi guys this is my first post so excuse me if I miss and info out.

I'm having an issue installing amavis when I try to start it I get this message:

(Do you need to predeclare whine?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder.pm line 204, near "usage "unsupported encoding '$enc': using 'binary'""
(Do you need to predeclare usage?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder/Base64.pm line 80, near "debug "in = $in; out = $out""
(Do you need to predeclare debug?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder/NBit.pm line 142, near "whine "saw 8-bit data while encoding 7bit""
(Do you need to predeclare whine?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder/NBit.pm line 147, near "whine "saw long line while encoding 7bit/8bit""
(Do you need to predeclare whine?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder/UU.pm line 93, near "whine "file incomplete, no end found\n""
(Do you need to predeclare whine?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder/Gzip64.pm line 97, near "whine "Encoding ""
(Do you need to predeclare whine?)
ERROR: MISSING REQUIRED BASIC MODULES:
MIME::Head
MIME::Body
MIME::Entity
MIME::Parser
MIME:ecoder::Base64
MIME:ecoder::NBit
MIME:ecoder::UU
MIME:ecoder::Gzip64
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 157.
[root@localhost MIME]# amavisd debug
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Body.pm line 450, near "whine "couldn't unlink ""
(Do you need to predeclare whine?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder.pm line 204, near "usage "unsupported encoding '$enc': using 'binary'""
(Do you need to predeclare usage?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder/Base64.pm line 80, near "debug "in = $in; out = $out""
(Do you need to predeclare debug?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder/NBit.pm line 142, near "whine "saw 8-bit data while encoding 7bit""
(Do you need to predeclare whine?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder/NBit.pm line 147, near "whine "saw long line while encoding 7bit/8bit""
(Do you need to predeclare whine?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder/UU.pm line 93, near "whine "file incomplete, no end found\n""
(Do you need to predeclare whine?)
String found where operator expected at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Decoder/Gzip64.pm line 97, near "whine "Encoding ""
(Do you need to predeclare whine?)
ERROR: MISSING REQUIRED BASIC MODULES:
MIME::Head
MIME::Body
MIME::Entity
MIME::Parser
MIME:ecoder::Base64
MIME:ecoder::NBit
MIME:ecoder::UU
MIME:ecoder::Gzip64
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 157.

So its saying there are errors in the PERL files and then saying it cant find them?

I've looked into the my perl5 lib and its all there?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Glyn

You're missing these Perl modules. Download them from CPAN and install them.

Thanks for the reply.

I checked that first I'm primarily a PHP programmer so I knew to cover that alley so I adjusted the top of the /usr/local/sbin/amavisd from #!/usr/bin/perl -T to #!/usr/bin/perl -T -I/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/ to make sure the packages where included?

Did I do this properly or did I stuff it up .

Again thanks for the reply.

What distro do you use?

CentOS 5 mate.

No worries, but if you don't have the modules installed, it won't work. Go to http://search.cpan.org/, and enter the module name. You'll see it come up on the list. Download the file, and decompress it into a directory. They all usually install the same way: "perl Makefile.PL", then "make", "make test", and "make install". If you have any module dependencies, the Makefile.PL will tell you what they are. Install them first, obviously.

Shouldn't take long at all.

TB0ne I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!

Installing fro the address you sent got the whole thing up and running in no time at all like you said . he only thing I don't understand is I used cpan in the shell before hand to install the packages and all dependencies as its just like using PEAR. If there is a reason this didn't work could someone answer this question as it might just help another person in distress .

Id like to thank all of you who came to my aid I will endeavour to help other users as you helped me

Glad that worked for you, glyn3332. Ciao.

Perl will pick up that directory by default, so there is no need to modify amavisd to do this.

The problem is with your MIME:Tools install. Since you've used CPAN, you likely have two installations of these modules - one in vendor_perl and one in site_perl (CPAN's). Mixing and matching CPAN w/distributions can be a problem, especially when there are other dependencies.

Is this a similar problem in your case? :

http://groups.google.com/group/maili...5de53370deece#

It looks like it. I did have two versions of it when I looked originally but I'm that much of a noob with PERL that I didn't know what I was doing even 20%.

Thanks again I'll keep that in mind if I run into or see someone else with the same issue.

You'll find amavisd and its dependencies in the rpmforge repository for next time. I've had all sorts of problems with cpan installations some time down the track.