Hi dabloss I have just managed to get iTunesUpdate working on my G5 Mac (OS X 10.4.8) after having very similar problems to you with getting the Mac::AppleScript::Glue to install using CPAN. I also tried the DarwinPorts link that you showed but this didn't work either.
What finally worked for me was when I logged in as the 'root' user and did all the CPAN stuff as shown in the readme file as this user, rather than under my normal user account. I am not sure why, or if this was absolutely necessary, but it worked for me so I am not complaining! At the end of this the perl modules were installed in /Library/Perl/5.8.6 and were recognised by the plugin. Anyway, might be worth trying...but please note that I am by no means an expert. A couple of other things might help: To enable the 'root' account you need to go to the Security menu of NetInfo Manager (in /Applications/Utilities) and specify a password. Then go to the login window, choose 'Other' and log in with user name root and the password you chose. Logging in as root is a bit scary as you can basically trash your whole system if you want to - so take care! Because I had been messing about with CPAN for so long, I trashed Config.pm and Config.pm~ in /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/CPAN before starting CPAN again. (This forced CPAN to go through its config questions again. I accepted all the defaults, except I chose UNINST=1 at the point where it suggests that this might be a good option for root users. I think that this helped to clear out some of the mess from previous CPAN efforts, but don't know if it is essential.) The first 'install' didn't work, but 'force install' did, and now I am up and running, and the plugin is great - thanks James! Good luck WhaleOil -- WhaleOil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhaleOil's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5227 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24648 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
