How To Use get_iplayer - UPDATED (see last post)

[Martin109]

I've found get_iplayer, but don't know how to get it to work.  If I download and unpack the generic Linux tarball, I get a Perl script, but can't get this to work.  Any ideas where I am going wrong?

[Martin109]

OK, now when I try to run this script, I'm getting:

Code:

Can't locate HTML/Entities.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i486-linux-thread-multi
 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i496-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site-perl/5.8.8
 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at  /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer line 60.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/get_iplayer line 60.

[Daniel]

Do you have perl 5.8 and perl-LWP installed? The readme file says that those two are dependancies.

[kidd]

Martin,
As Daniel said, make sure you have LWP installed.  You can try it with the following command

Code:

perl -MLWP -e 0

if it outputs no error, it means you have it.

if you have lwp installed, then you should only need HTML::Entities.

as root

Code:

cpan HTML::Entities

[Martin109]

I obviously haven't got LWP installed, as I get a similar error ("Can't locate LWP.pm").  So, how do I install it?

[kidd]

as root you have to run

Code:

cpan LWP 

If it's the first time using cpan, you'll be asked some questions. default values mostly work.

[Martin109]

It did multiple make passes and searches for components, but in the end came up with:

Running make install
   make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

 

Thanks for the help so far, by the way!

[Martin109]

As a relative newbie, I'm struggling to remember what it is I need to do to install any tar file I've downloaded!

What I've downloaded is:

libwww-perl-5.829.tar.gz

Is that correct?  What do I do with it now?

[Anuhas]

You don't need to download libwww-perl-5.829.tar.gz separately. You need to install 'gcc' first, if you are getting an error with make. Then type those previous commands. I know for sure as I just tried.

[Martin109]

Thanks!  I'm away from my Linux box on holiday at the moment, but I will do this when I get back in September.

[Martin109]

It's only 18 months since I started this so here goes:

I've now got Perl working.  A command perl -V produces:

Code:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.26.6, archname=i586-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux vector.linux.net 2.6.26.6 #1 smp preempt sun oct 12 18:43:56 mdt 2008 i686 intel(r) pentium(r) d cpu 3.40ghz genuineintel gnulinux '
    config_args='-de -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Dinstallprefix=/usr -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr -Dinc_version_list=5.8.8 5.8.7 5.8.6 5.8.5 5.8.4 5.8.3 5.8.2 5.8.1 5.8.0 -Darchname=i586-linux'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.3', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.7.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.7'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686 -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_ITHREADS
                        USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Oct 31 2008 17:21:38
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i586-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
    .

Now for get_iplayer.  I've used the instructions on this site and adapted them for VL, with all the steps outlined completing OK.

However, when I issue the command perl get_iplayer, I get this output:

Code:

get_iplayer v2.78, Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Phil Lewis
  This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use --warranty.
  This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain
  conditions; use --conditions for details.

WARNING: Running the updater again to obtain plugins.
INFO: Current version is 2.78
INFO: Checking for latest version from www.infradead.org
ERROR: Failed to connect to update site - Update aborted

If I manually enter http://www.infradead.org into Firefox, I get:

No Comment

If you're looking for the Linux-MTD pages, try here.

There's a page with some useful information for anyone who may be interested in offering me employment

[bigpaws]

First hit on Google.

http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer

Bigpaws

[Martin109]

Yes, I've seen that page and pages it links to.  For example:

Released versions of get_iplayer can be downloaded from http://ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/get_iplayer/. The latest version is v2.78.

but this doesn't explain why get_iplayer is looking at www.infradead.org, instead of http://ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/get_iplayer/