[Spambayes] Unable to create hammie.db. All sb_*.py give same error

[johaBBa]

I'm moving my email server from a x86 system to a x86_64 system with 
better specs. I installed latest spambayes from source with no errors. 
When I try to create the initial hammie.db, I get the traceback below. All /usr/bin/sb_*.py scripts give the same error on the x86_64 system. I 
removed the ~/.hammie.db on my old x86 system; creating a new db on 
that system still works. Both x86 and x86_64 systems are fully updated. On the old x86 system I used spambayes-1.1a4. I installed spambayes-1.1a4 in the x86_64 system and I get the same error below.

Any assistance getting spambayes working on the x86_64 system would be greatly appreciated.



OS: CentOS 5.5 x86_64

Version: spambayes-1.1a6

Python: 2.4.3 (#1, Nov 11 2010, 13:30:19) 

Traceback



[user at host ~]$ /usr/bin/sb_filter.py -d /home/user/.hammie.db -n

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/bin/sb_filter.py", line 83, in ?

    from spambayes import hammie, Options, mboxutils, storage

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spambayes-1.1a6-py2.4.egg/spambayes/hammie.py", line 6, in ?

    from spambayes import storage

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spambayes-1.1a6-py2.4.egg/spambayes/storage.py", line 62, in ?

    from spambayes import classifier

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spambayes-1.1a6-py2.4.egg/spambayes/classifier.py", line 60, in ?

    from spambayes.safepickle import pickle_read, pickle_write

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/spambayes-1.1a6-py2.4.egg/spambayes/safepickle.py", line 7, in ?

    import lockfile

  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/lockfile/__init__.py", line 279, in ?

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/lockfile-0.9.1-py2.4.egg/lockfile/linklockfile.py", line 6

    from . import (LockBase, LockFailed, NotLocked, NotMyLock, LockTimeout,

         ^

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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