At 23:22 +0100 9/12/09, Mine wrote: >Hi, > >Thanks for your excellent response, makes installing so easy assuming I did >it correctly. >I think everything that was required is installed, but I am not sure >everything was installed >in the right location. > >It appears that Perl 5.10.1 was installed and all the modules I installed are >associated with >Perl 5.10.1. When I try to run the get_iplayer PVR module I get the following >error: >Can't locate loadable object for module HTML::Parser in @INC (@INC contains: >/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-2level >(I have abbreviated the error message) > >And when I enter perl -v I get the following: >This is perl, v5.8.8 built for darwin-2level > >So the system does not see the Perl 5.10.1 install. Can someone please tell >me if there is a >was to install the modules so they relate to perl, v5.8.8, or point >get_iplayer to use Perl 5.10.1. >
I suspect that Apple's perl is 5.8.8 and it is installed in /usr/bin. It needs to stay there because Apple's updates may depend on it. Installing 5.10.1 in /usr/bin/ replacing 5.8.8 is not recommended. I also suspect that perl 5.10 is installed in /usr/local/bin but that might be different like /opt/bin depending on just how you installed it.. Look around for it. /opt/local/lib/ sounds unlikely to me. You are probably going to make a change to your PATH environment variable to make the directory that perl 5,10 resides in appear before /usr/bin. A shell command like: setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH # csh PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH # something like this in bash export PATH You can also specify PATH in a startup file $HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist. but you'll have to create that including the .MacOSX directory unless it's already there. There are some instructions on Apple's web site. Ask if you'd like a sample. @INC is a perl array that lists directories in which modules can be found. There are a bunch of standard locations relative to the directory that perl itself lives in but you can add more directories by setting the PERL5LIB environment variable to a PATH-like list of other directories. That too can be done in environment.plist. It's a bit hard to understand why iplayer doesn't have an installation script or at least some less geeky instructions for users. -- --> A fair tax is one that you pay but I don't <--
