Errors installing MIME::Parser

emailbuilder88 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

Just tried to install MIME::Parser, which has never been a problem for me before, but now I got the errors below and I don't really know how to follow up to correct them. Any pointers are highly appreciated!

Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/Body...........ok                                                          
t/Decoder........ok                                                          
t/Entity.........ok                                                          
t/Gauntlet.......ok                                                          
t/Head...........ok                                                          
t/Misc...........FAILED tests 4-5, 7-11                                      
        Failed 7/14 tests, 50.00% okay
t/Parser.........ok                                                          
t/Ref............ok                                                          
t/WordDecoder....ok                                                          
t/Words..........ok                                                          
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/Misc.t                  14    7  50.00%  4-5 7-11
Failed 1/10 test scripts, 90.00% okay. 7/231 subtests failed, 96.97% okay.
make: *** test_dynamic Error 255
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK

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Re: Errors installing MIME::Parser by emailbuilder88 (Initiate) on Mar 09, 2005 at 22:49 UTC
Appologies for the noise. The problem was explained serveral lines up in the output: MIME::Base64 was out of date. Below is the exact text. Thanks, all, for the great service! Checking for module MIME::Base64 (version 3.03)... not found. --- Fallback: Checking for module MIME::Base64 (version 2.20)... ok. * Warning: We can work with version 2.20 of MIME::Base64, but * we recommend that you upgrade to version 3.03. * Note that if you type 'make test', then tests * 4, 5 and 7-11 of t/Misc.t may fail because of the old version *** of MIME::Base64	[reply]

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Re: Errors installing MIME::Parser
by emailbuilder88 (Initiate) on Mar 09, 2005 at 22:49 UTC

Checking for module MIME::Base64 (version 3.03)... not found.
 --- Fallback: Checking for module MIME::Base64 (version 2.20)... ok.

   *** Warning: We can work with version 2.20 of MIME::Base64, but
   *** we recommend that you upgrade to version 3.03.

   *** Note that if you type 'make test', then tests
   *** 4, 5 and 7-11 of t/Misc.t may fail because of the old version
   *** of MIME::Base64

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