Please see below ...
On 20/06/2019 12:49, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote:
On 2019-06-19 09:34, Jim Lesurf wrote:
I've just installed the current xfce mint long-term-support distro on my
main 'work' machine. Having transferred my own programs, data, etc, I
find
that gip now doesn't work. This seems to be because at least some of the
relevant perl modules aren't installed by default.
When I used to run get_iplayer under Windows, I used to install the
perl of
my choice, then ran
cpan cpanminus
to install 'cpanminus', then used that to install the perl modules
that the
g_ip documentation said I'd need.
A quick google suggests that under linux one might use one's distro's
package
manager (apt or whatever) to install perl, and cpan, but then just use
cpan
to install perl modules (apparently outwith the control of apt or
whatever).
How is a perl user supposed to know whether to go to cpan/cpanminus
route or
expect their distro's package manager to deal with this
I think we all have our methods, and I'm not convinced that mine or
anyone else's is better than other possible methods, but in the
confusion of suggestions, there is the possibility of important
information being lost or obscured, which is that both under Linux &
Windows, the LibXML libraries are a potential deadfall. In Windows,
especially under 32-bit, you have to do quite a lot of pissing about to
get LibXML to work with Perl at all - about a year or so ago I posted
here detailed instructions for installing and running GiP on Win XP,
previously assumed to be no longer possible, which covered that ground
and more - and even under Linux, if you try to configure and compile
the libraries manually, you may fail. As many have suggested, in Linux
the easiest way is to install the relevant packages using apt-get or
whatever.
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