Installation error SpamAssassin

[spirit]

Hi all,

Whilst installing SpamAssassin the folowing errors appair:


Warning: prerequisite Digest::SHA1 0 not found.
Writing Makefile for Mail::SpamAssassin
Makefile written by ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.17

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/usr/bin/perl spamc/configure.pl --prefix="/usr" --sysconfdir="/etc/mail/spamassassin" --datadir="/usr/share/spamassassin" --enable-ssl="no"
cd spamc
/usr/bin/perl version.h.pl
version.h.pl: creating version.h
spamc/configure.pl: version.h.pl: Failed to get the version from Mail::SpamAssassin.
Please use the --with-version= switch to specify it manually.

The error was:
version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: version.h.pl: Can't locate Digest/SHA1.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 33.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 33.
Compilation failed in require at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 56.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 56.
Compilation failed in require at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 74.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 74.
Compilation failed in require at version.h.pl line 27.
make: *** [spamc/Makefile] Error 2
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Does anyone know how I can fix this and complete the installation??

Many thnx in advance,
Marco

 

[spirit]

someone know this error??

 

[nobaloney]

It looks as if you're missing the Digest::SHA1 module.

There's a good howto on installing perl modules here.

Jeff

 

[spirit]

Jeff,

THXN its working now

It looks as if you're missing the Digest::SHA1 module.

There's a good howto on installing perl modules here.

Jeff