spamassassin installation error

[servraid]

trying to install spamassassin but i keep getting this error cant seem to figure out what the issue could be?

thanks for any help you can give!

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root@cp:~# sudo apt-get install spamassassin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
spamassassin is already the newest version (3.4.2-1~deb9u1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 108 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up spamassassin (3.4.2-1~deb9u1) ...
error: gpg required but not found!  It is not recommended, but you can use "sa-update" with the --no-gpg to skip the verification.
dpkg: error processing package spamassassin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sa-compile:
 sa-compile depends on spamassassin; however:
  Package spamassassin is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package sa-compile (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 spamassassin
 sa-compile
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@cp:~#

[ScIT]

Can you share your host os and version information? Or is it debian 9 like you wrote in your profile?

[servraid]

Can you share your host os and version information? Or is it debian 9 like you wrote in your profile?

yes it's Debian 9 thanks

[servraid]

does anybody have any idea? thanks for any help or suggestion you can give!