[SOLVED] Struggling to install spamassassin

mfoley · 12-30-2016, 09:44 AM

I've spent two days trying to install spamassassin on Slackware64 14.1. I managed to do this on two machines a couple of years ago, but having trouble now.

I first download spamassassin from the SlackBuilds repo (46 interdependent modules!). It built and installed, but I got an error trying to run sa-update. I didn't make a note of that error, but I believe it was pretty much the same as the error I got in my next attempt.

Next, I uninstalled all the SlackBuilds spamassassin packages and downloaded and installed Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1 from spamassassin.apache.org. Running sa-update gives me the same error:

Code:

> sa-update
Insecure dependency in require while running with -T switch at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/DNS/Resolver/Base.pm line 570.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/DNS/Resolver/Base.pm line 570.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 20) line 2.
        ...propagated at /usr/share/perl5/base.pm line 84.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/DNS/Resolver/UNIX.pm line 18.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 19) line 2.
        ...propagated at /usr/share/perl5/base.pm line 84.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/DNS/Resolver.pm line 22.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/DNS.pm line 51.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/sa-update line 87.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/sa-update line 87.

This is pretty much gibberish to me. Can anyone help me out? There were no required dependency failures in my build.

bathory · 12-30-2016, 04:55 PM

Quote:

> sa-update
Insecure dependency in require while running with -T switch at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/DNS/Resolver/Base.pm line 570.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Net/DNS/Resolver/Base.pm line 570.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 20) line 2.
<snip>

Most likely you need a more recent version of the Net:

NS perl module.
Try 1.06 (after uninstalling 1.02 that comes with 14.1) and see if it helps

Regards

mfoley · 01-01-2017, 11:30 PM

Unfortunately, my Net:

NS version is 1.06. Other ideas?

bathory · 01-02-2017, 02:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mfoley

Unfortunately, my Net:

NS version is 1.06. Other ideas?

You may try the 1.05 version. See this post

In fact, when I installed spamassassin twice on Slackware (12.2 and 14.2) by compiling the sources from apache.org (as you did), I installed the necessary perl modules using cpan. The Net:

NS module at that time was 1.05, and everything works without a hitch.

mfoley · 01-02-2017, 08:31 PM

Thanks for the help. I tried using CPAN (I think). The spamassassin INSTALL file gave the instructions:

Code:

Using CPAN via CPAN.pm:

        perl -MCPAN -e shell                    [as root]
        o conf prerequisites_policy ask
        install Mail::SpamAssassin
        quit

When I ran that I got:

Code:

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
Terminal does not support AddHistory.

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v2.14)
Enter 'h' for help.

cpan[1]> o conf prerequisites_policy ask
    prerequisites_policy [ask]
Please use 'o conf commit' to make the config permanent!


cpan[2]> o conf commit
commit: wrote '/root/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm'

cpan[3]> install Mail::SpamAssassin
:
:
REQUIRED module missing: Net::DNS
REQUIRED module missing: NetAddr::IP
optional module missing: Razor2

Apparently, that `install` did not find these dependencies. So, I then did:

Code:

cpan[5]> install Net::DNS
:
cpan[6]> install NetAddr::IP
:
cpan[7]> install Razor2
Warning: Cannot install Razor2, don't know what it is.
Try the command

    i /Razor2/

to find objects with matching identifiers.

The install of Net:

NS and NetAddr::IP worked just find and it found dependencies in those modules that I said to go ahead and install. Razor2 is optional, but I did have that installed on my other systems, so I tried installing it too. When I ran `i /Razor2/` I got a list of 22 items. Not sure if I should install them all or what, so I decided to forget about Razor2 for now and then went on to trying Mail::SpamAssassin again:

Code:

cpan[8]> install Mail::SpamAssassin
Running install for module 'Mail::SpamAssassin'
  KMCGRAIL/SpamAssassin/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1.tar.gz
  Has already been unwrapped into directory /root/.cpan/build/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1-0
  KMCGRAIL/SpamAssassin/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1.tar.gz
  No 'Makefile' created
, not re-running

Stuck there. What should I do?

mfoley · 01-02-2017, 08:59 PM

This may be a bad thing to do, but I deleted the directories /root/.cpan/build/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1-0/ and /root/.cpan/build/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.1-coyWeE/ and tried installing Mail::SpamAssassin again. That worked.

running sa-update gave the message:

Code:

Can't locate HTTP/Date.pm in @INC (you may need to install the HTTP::Date module) (@INC contains: /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5) at /usr/local/bin/sa-update line 88.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/sa-update line 88.

So, I installed that (arggh! these missing dependencies!), then ran sa-update again. I got no error this time (but no output -- I'll have to research that). There are new files in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.004001/updates_spamassassin_org/, so I suppose it worked.

I'll do some more testing and post back.

Meanwhile ... any idea where I can get a current spamass-milter for sendmail? Not having much luck searching.

bathory · 01-03-2017, 02:34 AM

Quote:

So, I installed that (arggh! these missing dependencies!), then ran sa-update again. I got no error this time (but no output -- I'll have to research that). There are new files in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.004001/updates_spamassassin_org/, so I suppose it worked.

Sure it worked. It downloaded the new spamassassin rules. If you want to see some output you should run it in verbose mode:

Code:

sa-update -v

Quote:

Meanwhile ... any idea where I can get a current spamass-milter for sendmail? Not having much luck searching.

I don't use a milter, but you can try mimedefang. Have a look here for a howto.

Regards

mfoley · 01-05-2017, 02:40 PM

I got everything working OK. The trick was to use CPAN to install things and forget about using the ./Configure, make, make install process with the source tarballs. My "missing" Razor2 module was Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Razor2, although when I searched for installed modules it was there after all.

I got the latest sendmail milter (spamass-milter) from http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/spamass-milt. It built and installed w/o problem.

In the end, by procedure for installing spamassassin using CPAN is much simpler that the way I did it before. Too bad it doesn't *really* find all the dependencies on the 1st pass, and I think my deleting the troublesome /root/.cpan directories is a bit naughty, but still, it went together pretty quickly and simply.