Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Jim web
In article , Nick Payne wrote: > Using the PPA and apt will only install the needed dependencies. You're > far more likely to be "spraying things you don't actually need into your > install" by trying to do it manually. And apt will give you an exact > list of the additional packages that need to

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Nick Payne
On 20/06/2019 6:19 pm, Jim web wrote: > In article , Nick Payne > wrote: >> Using the PPA and apt will only install the needed dependencies. You're >> far more likely to be "spraying things you don't actually need into your >> install" by trying to do it manually. And apt will give you an exact

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip
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

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:49:10PM +0100, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: >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? The standard approach is to use the system-packaged modules if they're available, and

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread MacFH - C E Macfarlane
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

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Jim web
In article <9e149f35-ac18-8321-525a-5fb0a4bec...@gmail.com>, Nick Payne wrote: > But I still think the command line is easier: FWIW for some items - gip and ffmpeg being the main examples - I prefer to fetch and make/put them in my 'user' space, not as system installs. Makes it easier for me to

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread Charles Johnson
On 20/06/2019 12:22, Nick Payne wrote: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-hedgerows/get-iplayer Best solution if you don't want to be solving dependency problems. Personally i find it better to use git to fetch the latest version and then solve them. But ... why (someone must know) has gip

Re: New distro.

2019-06-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 12:49:10PM +0100, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote: > 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