Well, most people don't have multiple perl installs. Also get_iplayer
isn't a slick end-user product. It's a utility.
Anyway, the one thing that's not mentioned here is if you can figure
out the path to the 5.10.1 perl, you could change the shebang line at
the start of the get_iplayer script. Right now, it reads:
#!/usr/bin/perl
Change that to point to your 5.10.1 perl, and it should have the
proper @INC to use the modules you have installed for 5.10.1.
On Sep 12, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
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.
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