I think this might be: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6143
I produce the package for Gentoo and as a workaround I have to install my distribution's GD package and then run build-perl-modules.pl. Stuart ioncube wrote: > Hi > > Having somewhat reluctantly to update from 6.3.1 (the last working > server software for me) in order to use the latest addition to my SB > collection (this time a Duet), I expected Perl problems with getting SC > 7.2 to work, and this seems to be the case and I'm stuck. Any help would > be welcome. > > Having updated Perl, running slimserver gave a list of missing modules, > DBD::mysql DBI XML::Parser::Expat HTML::Parser JSON::XS Digest::SHA1 > YAML::Syck GD, and instructions for how to download them. > > Fair enough so I did that, and the Mysql install then barfed as it was > looking for a wrong version of DBI (1.50 instead of 1.604). Fixed the > expected version in build-perl-modules.pl and everything went fine > except for GD. GD is required, yet 'build-perl-modules.pl GD' does > nothing and I'm not sure what to change to install GD. I tried adding > > 'GD' => 'GD-2.41.tar.gz' > > to the array of packages, which seemed like a fair guess as it's the > current version, but the package didn't get downloaded. > > Any ideas on this? > > Also, I'm wondering how are other people are getting a working version > of SC 7.2 when there are the basic bugs above in the install? Reading > some other posts I'm also wondering whether Perl 5.10 is going to be a > problem as well. Hopefully not as 5.8.7 was segfaulting so switching to > the latest release Perl seemed reasonable. > > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
