Bugzilla not seeing Email::MIME

bugzillaperl

I am trying to install bugzilla and I keep getting the error that the required module Email::MIME is not found.

However, when I run the install command I get:

/usr/bin/perl install-module.pl Email::MIME
Checking for CPAN (v1.81) ok: found v1.93
Checking for YAML (any) ok: found v0.71
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.21)
Going to read /home/thethewr/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:30:03 GMT
Installing Email::MIME version 1.903...
Email::MIME is up to date (1.903).

Yet bugzilla says

Checking for          Email-MIME (v1.861)   not found

Best Answer

Email::MIME uses Email::Address.

A recent update to Email::Address accidently included a feature which requires Perl 5.10 (Perl Bug 60765).

You can check if this issue is impacting you by running the following from the Bugzilla directory:

perl -Mlib=lib -MEmail::MIME -e1

If you see a Sequence (?|...) not recognized in regex error, then that's what is going on with your installation.

An updated Email::Address is due "in a few days".

Related Solutions

CPAN fails to install DateTime module

What OS / Distro are you using? It is generally easier to install these modules from a package because that will get the dependencies too. In Ubuntu you would just:

sudo apt-get install libdatetime-perl

Linux – How to apt-get perl module “Template”

Why are you installing Bugzilla manually? ;-)

I don't have an Ubuntu box to check from, but there's a Bugzilla package in Debian (bugzilla3), so I'm guessing it's available, even if you need to enable the Universe. Have you tried using that? Also, the fact that it exists out there tells me that all required Perl modules are packaged for Ubuntu, although again, you might have to enable the Universe repository.

Trying to mix Distribution provided perl modules with CPAN can get kinda hairy, if you're not careful. I have a pretty strong preference for keeping them completely separate for all but the most simple cases (by separate, I mean I install a completely new and separate Perl and CPAN installation if I need crazy stuff that's not available via APT repositories, and then use that separate installation just for the application(s) I installed it for).

If I were you, I'd start by getting rid of all the CPAN installed stuff, and try:

sudo aptitude install bugzilla3

See if that does the trick for you.

Best Answer

Related Solutions

CPAN fails to install DateTime module

Linux – How to apt-get perl module “Template”

Related Topic