Ok, here is what I did 1. Easy part
install the following packages which are missing from squeezecenter package dependencies (sudo apt-get install): libcompress-zlib-perl libtemplate-perl libyaml-syck-perl libjson-xs-perl APT will pull couple more packages because of the dependencies, which is perfectly fine (that's actually what we want). 2. Slightly more difficult part We still need libencode-detect-perl which somehow never got included into official Debian repo (RFP is pending for almost a year I think). Since I could not wait any longer I did a quick search. Best alternative is to use debian port by pkg-perl team (http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/). so just mkdir -p debs/build cd debs/build svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-perl/trunk/libencode-detect-perl libencode-detect-perl cd libencode-detect-perl dpkg-buildpackage most probably it will complain that build requires libdata-dump-perl, so let's temporary install it sudo apt-get install libdata-dump-perl And then try to build package again (and install it): dpkg-buildpackage cd ../ sudo dpkg -i libencode-detect-perl_1.00-1_i386.deb And then (optionally) remove libdata-dump-perl which we do not need anymore: sudo dpkg --purge libdata-dump-perl 3. Hackish part We need to remove all the stuff from squeezecenter package which conflicts with the modules we've just installed. Since I'm lazy enough I've just manually renamed files/dirs, but really I could have setup diversions so I do not have to do it each time I'm updating squeezecenter package (man dpkg-divert) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/squeezecenter/CPAN$ find . -name '*.bak' | xargs ls -ld drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 May 7 21:22 ./Compress.bak drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 128 May 7 21:22 ./DBD.bak drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 352 May 7 21:22 ./DBI.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 274450 May 7 09:01 ./DBI.pm.bak drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 296 May 7 21:22 ./HTML.bak drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 96 May 7 21:22 ./JSON.bak drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 672 May 7 21:22 ./Template.bak -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24781 May 7 09:01 ./Template.pm.bak drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 152 May 7 21:22 ./Time.bak drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 304 May 7 21:22 ./XML.bak drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 144 May 7 21:22 ./YAML.bak And (obviously) I've removed everything from CPAN/arch directory (modules built for 5.8.x are not going to work anyway) After that squeezecenter should run just fine (assuming it was working with perl-5.8) ================= Now, just to clarify things: solution does not pretend to be perfect and rather belongs to "let's see if we can make it work" world. I certainly hope that slimdevice guys will take care of things eventually so for less tech-savvy people stuff will work out of the box. Here are the things I would consider "let's play nice with the customers" slimdevices people can do: a) fix dependencies (a lot of stuff is missing currently) My list does not pretend to be complete. It consist of the packages which were missing on _my_ system. There might be others that just happened to be installed due to other app/libs requiring them. Ideally one would have to try it on pristine Debian installation... b) pack libencode-detect-perl as described above and publish it on slimdevices.com (same repo as being used to publish squeezecenter.deb) This have to be done just once (not every time squeezecenter.deb is being packaged). c) stop including _any_ CPAN perl modules which require compilation into squeezecenter.deb. Ideally everything should be handled by setting dependencies right. -- bugfixer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bugfixer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17392 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=46491 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
