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From: J G Miller on 17 Jul 2010 11:44 On Saturday, July 17th, 2010 at 06:21:06h -0700, James Romeon wrote: > Slim said they do not support the latest version of Perl. All depends on what they mean by "latest" and "version" and "support". > Do the CPAN modules have to match the perl version? Which PERL version? > How does one use CPAN? Very easily. As root enter the command cpan. If it is not found then you will have to install the cpan package. The first thing to do is to upgrade cpan> upgrade then cpan> install "module_name" When running cpan for the first time, it will ask for quite a lot of configuration information, but most of this can be set to the default value suggested. It is best to install "custom" installed modules under /usr/local so as not to contaminate the purity of the installed openSUSE package hierarchy under /usr.
From: Darrell Stec on 17 Jul 2010 14:17 J G Miller wrote: > On Saturday, July 17th, 2010 at 06:21:06h -0700, James Romeon wrote: > >> Slim said they do not support the latest version of Perl. > > All depends on what they mean by "latest" and "version" and "support". > >> Do the CPAN modules have to match the perl version? > > Which PERL version? > >> How does one use CPAN? > > Very easily. > > As root enter the command cpan. If it is not found then you will > have to install the cpan package. > > The first thing to do is to upgrade > > cpan> upgrade > > then > > cpan> install "module_name" > > When running cpan for the first time, it will ask for quite a lot > of configuration information, but most of this can be set to > the default value suggested. > > It is best to install "custom" installed modules under /usr/local > so as not to contaminate the purity of the installed openSUSE package > hierarchy under /usr. Great tips. -- Later, Darrell
From: J G Miller on 17 Jul 2010 15:06 On Saturday, July 17th, 2010 at 14:17:45h -0400, Darrell Stec wrote: > > Great tips. I just hope that this will get his Squeezebox server working again. Incidentally, is it possible to use MediaTomb as a media server for Squeezebox or not? I used to be very keen on uShare as a media server, but the project has died, and decided on MediaTomb as a replacement. Anybody else out there using MediaTomb with a Noxon audio device perchance?
From: J G Miller on 18 Jul 2010 15:15 On Sunday, July 18th, 2010 at 12:03:27h -0700, James Rome observed: > cpan is doing lots of things. Yes, when you first start it up, it get down to business and does lots of things, almost all of which will be put under /root/.cpan assuming you are running as root. > I hope it does not screw up 11.3. Why should it, it it is kept separate from /usr ? > If I install a new module, how do I specify that it go into /usr/local? When you fired up CPAN for the first time, it asked you where you wanted things to be installed, and /usr/local is the default, which I presume you accepted. Incidentally for those who are not familiar, CPAN is the repository of PERL modules Comprehensive Perl Archive Network <http://www.cpan.ORG/> I wonder if the were inspired to chose the CPAN name from CTAN (the TeX equivalent). So to make life easier for everybody, CPAN developed the CPAN interface which downloads the tar.gz archives, unpacks them, builds the module, installs the module, and most importantly tests it as well. If you want further information try cpan> help if you have not already done so. > What I did so far is to download the latest CPAN modules into the > squeezeboxserver source directory. If they were located under /usr/local, they would be available for everybody, and should have been picked up by the squeezebox building procedure. > The build script was happy until I got to mysql. It wants an old mysql > tar file. But what does it want to do with it? > But I am worried that two versions of mysql will screw things up on > my system. Do you mean two mysql daemons? Are you running one anyways for other things?
From: jamesromeongmail.com on 18 Jul 2010 15:59
On Jul 18, 3:15 pm, J G Miller <mil...(a)yoyo.ORG> wrote: > > > The build script was happy until I got to mysql. It wants an old mysql > > tar file. > > But what does it want to do with it? > > > But I am worried that two versions of mysql will screw things up on > > my system. > > Do you mean two mysql daemons? Are you running one anyways for other > things? Yes, I have the SUSE mysql running. But the above script wants to install lots of other things also. expat, libjpeg, freetype, gd,... Thanks, Jim |