diff --git a/tests/getpart.pm b/tests/getpart.pm
index 1dffe353c8..48be6c2da7 100644
--- a/tests/getpart.pm
+++ b/tests/getpart.pm
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ my @xml;
 my $warning=0;
 my $trace=0;
 
+sub decode_base64 {
+  tr:A-Za-z0-9+/::cd;                   # remove non-base64 chars
+  tr:A-Za-z0-9+/: -_:;                  # convert to uuencoded format
+  my $len = pack("c", 32 + 0.75*length);   # compute length byte
+  return unpack("u", $len . $_);         # uudecode and print
+}
+
 sub getpartattr {
     # if $part is undefined (ie only one argument) then
     # return the attributes of the section
diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index ba13d24138..5f69e918ec 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 ###########################################################################
 # These should be the only variables that might be needed to get edited:
 
-use MIME::Base64;
 use strict;
 #use warnings;