On 15/10/2014 22:06, roadcone wrote:
I have not yet replaced the perl script on my Linux machine due to my unfamiliarity with folder ownership and not knowing the consequences of taking over ownership from root. And if I do, do I leave it as mine or will that cause other apps problems later? Do I return ownership to root once I have replaced the perl script file?
You don't say what distro you're using, but I assume you have a packaged install that puts get_iplayer in /usr/bin, where it's owned by root. You don't need to touch this at all for the moment. Ignore it.
LInux: I've tried putting the latest perl script file in the downloads folder the dropping to Terminal in that folder and running get_iplayer. This seems to run the installed version 2.82 and not the recently downloaded v2.86 from github. I had rather assumed it would run the copy from the same folder and not go looking for the original. I have changed permissions of the downloaded one to executable.
Unlike Windows, the current directory isn't implicitly in PATH. You probably just need to invoke get_iplayer from current directory explicitly: ./get_iplayer. As the manual installation instructions tell you, you may elect to install somewhere in PATH, like /usr/local/bin, that would supersede your packaged version, but there is no need to do that for now.
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