Amaviis will not install

Everyone,

Looks lik amavis is broken or at least it will not install. It has the message that IO::Stringy is needed.

I used cpan to install IO::Stringy, but could still not install amavis. Anyone have any ideas of how I could install amavis

Greg Ennis

Try:

dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools
dnf install perl-IO-stringy

although I found mine wants to install perl-IO-string when I just do this:

[root@rocky ~]# dnf install amavis
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:40 ago on Mon 16 May 2022 21:16:59 CEST.
Dependencies resolved.
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 Package                          Architecture  Version                                         Repository         Size
========================================================================================================================
Installing:
 amavis                           noarch        2.12.1-5.el8                                    epel              413 k
Installing dependencies:
 altermime                        x86_64        0.3.10-21.el8                                   epel               66 k
 clamav-data                      noarch        0.103.6-1.el8                                   epel              219 M
 clamav-filesystem                noarch        0.103.6-1.el8                                   epel               46 k
 clamav-lib                       x86_64        0.103.6-1.el8                                   epel              862 k
 libprelude                       x86_64        5.2.0-1.el8                                     epel              326 k
 mailcap                          noarch        2.1.48-3.el8                                    baseos             38 k
 perl-Algorithm-Diff              noarch        1.1903-9.el8                                    baseos             51 k
 perl-Archive-Tar                 noarch        2.30-1.el8                                      baseos             78 k
 perl-Archive-Zip                 noarch        1.60-3.el8                                      appstream         107 k
 perl-Authen-SASL                 noarch        2.16-13.el8                                     appstream          56 k
 perl-BerkeleyDB                  x86_64        0.63-2.el8                                      epel              154 k
 perl-Convert-ASN1                noarch        0.27-17.el8                                     appstream          59 k
 perl-Convert-BinHex              noarch        1.125-13.el8                                    epel               49 k
 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum        x86_64        0.09-5.el8                                      appstream          45 k
 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA           x86_64        0.31-1.el8                                      appstream          46 k
 perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-Random        x86_64        0.15-3.el8                                      appstream          30 k
 perl-DB_File                     x86_64        1.842-1.el8                                     appstream          82 k
 perl-Data-Dump                   noarch        1.23-7.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624              appstream          36 k
 perl-Digest-HMAC                 noarch        1.03-17.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624             appstream          19 k
 perl-Digest-SHA                  x86_64        1:6.02-1.el8                                    appstream          65 k
 perl-Encode-Detect               x86_64        1.01-28.el8                                     appstream          88 k
 perl-Encode-Locale               noarch        1.05-10.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624             appstream          20 k
 perl-File-LibMagic               x86_64        1.16-9.el8                                      epel               44 k
 perl-File-Listing                noarch        6.04-17.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624             appstream          17 k
 perl-GSSAPI                      x86_64        0.28-25.el8                                     appstream          63 k
 perl-HTML-Parser                 x86_64        3.72-15.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624             appstream         118 k
 perl-HTML-Tagset                 noarch        3.20-34.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624             appstream          23 k
 perl-HTTP-Cookies                noarch        6.04-2.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624              appstream          38 k
 perl-HTTP-Date                   noarch        6.02-19.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624             appstream          18 k
 perl-HTTP-Message                noarch        6.18-1.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624              appstream          99 k
 perl-HTTP-Negotiate              noarch        6.01-19.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624             appstream          21 k
 perl-IO-HTML                     noarch        1.001-11.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624            appstream          27 k
 perl-IO-Multiplex                noarch        1.16-9.el8                                      appstream          30 k
 perl-IO-Socket-INET6             noarch        2.72-12.el8                                     appstream          32 k
 perl-IO-String                   noarch        1.08-32.el8                                     appstream          20 k
 perl-IO-Zlib                     noarch        1:1.10-420.el8                                  baseos             79 k
 perl-IO-stringy                  noarch        2.111-9.el8                                     powertools         70 k
 perl-JSON                        noarch        2.97.001-2.el8                                  appstream          95 k
 perl-LWP-MediaTypes              noarch        6.02-15.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624             appstream          28 k
 perl-MIME-tools                  noarch        5.509-9.el8                                     epel              249 k
 perl-Mail-DKIM                   noarch        0.54-1.el8                                      appstream         161 k
 perl-Mail-SPF                    noarch        2.9.0-15.el8                                    appstream         152 k
 perl-MailTools                   noarch        2.20-2.el8                                      appstream         112 k
 perl-Math-BigInt                 noarch        1:1.9998.11-7.el8                               baseos            194 k
 perl-Math-Complex                noarch        1.59-420.el8                                    baseos            107 k
 perl-NTLM                        noarch        1.09-17.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624             appstream          23 k
 perl-Net-DNS                     noarch        1.15-1.el8                                      appstream         368 k
 perl-Net-HTTP                    noarch        6.17-2.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624              appstream          42 k
 perl-Net-LibIDN                  x86_64        0.12-35.el8                                     epel               34 k
 perl-Net-SMTP-SSL                noarch        1.04-5.el8                                      appstream          14 k
 perl-Net-Server                  noarch        2.009-3.el8                                     appstream         208 k
 perl-NetAddr-IP                  x86_64        4.079-7.el8                                     appstream         131 k
 perl-Razor-Agent                 x86_64        2.86-1.el8                                      epel              124 k
 perl-Socket6                     x86_64        0.28-6.el8                                      appstream          35 k
 perl-Sys-Syslog                  x86_64        0.35-397.el8                                    appstream          49 k
 perl-Text-Diff                   noarch        1.45-2.el8                                      baseos             44 k
 perl-Text-Soundex                x86_64        3.05-8.el8                                      appstream          31 k
 perl-Text-Unidecode              noarch        1.30-5.el8                                      appstream         148 k
 perl-Time-HiRes                  x86_64        4:1.9758-2.el8                                  appstream          60 k
 perl-TimeDate                    noarch        1:2.30-15.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624           appstream          52 k
 perl-Try-Tiny                    noarch        0.30-7.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624              appstream          44 k
 perl-Unix-Syslog                 x86_64        1.1-29.el8                                      appstream          34 k
 perl-WWW-RobotRules              noarch        6.02-18.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624             appstream          22 k
 perl-libwww-perl                 noarch        6.34-1.module+el8.4.0+529+e3b3e624              appstream         212 k
 perl-version                     x86_64        6:0.99.24-1.el8                                 appstream          66 k
 procmail                         x86_64        3.22-47.el8                                     appstream         179 k
Installing weak dependencies:
 arj                              x86_64        3.10.22-30.el8                                  epel              184 k
 cabextract                       x86_64        1.9-7.el8                                       epel               73 k
 clamd                            x86_64        0.103.6-1.el8                                   epel              125 k
 freeze                           x86_64        2.5.0-26.el8                                    epel               38 k
 lzop                             x86_64        1.03-20.el8                                     baseos             61 k
 nomarch                          x86_64        1.4-21.el8                                      epel               26 k
 p7zip                            x86_64        16.02-20.el8                                    epel              683 k
 p7zip-plugins                    x86_64        16.02-20.el8                                    epel              1.0 M
 perl-Convert-TNEF                noarch        0.18-17.el8                                     epel               26 k
 perl-Convert-UUlib               x86_64        3:1.8-1.el8                                     epel              243 k
 perl-DBD-SQLite                  x86_64        1.58-2.module+el8.4.0+515+5c88ffe5              appstream         192 k
 perl-DBI                         x86_64        1.641-3.module+el8.4.0+509+59a8d9b3             appstream         739 k
 perl-LDAP                        noarch        1:0.66-7.el8                                    appstream         385 k
 spamassassin                     x86_64        3.4.4-4.el8                                     appstream         1.3 M
 unzoo                            x86_64        4.4-27.el8                                      epel               30 k
Enabling module streams:
 perl-DBD-SQLite                                1.58                                                                   
 perl-DBI                                       1.641                                                                  

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================
Install  82 Packages

Total download size: 230 M
Installed size: 248 M
Is this ok [y/N]: 

you may also want to install epel:

dnf install epel-release

since some of the dependencies above come from that repo as well. Maybe enable appstream repo as well if you haven’t done this already.

I feel pretty stupiid… I thought I had power tools acttive. Thanski so much for taking the time to help me. Your soultion worked perfectly!!!

Greg Ennis

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