Re: Perl install problems OSX 10.4.11

Hi, Thanks for replying Andrew.

I don't fully understand what Perl does but if Perl comes installed  
with OSX
it appears that I also have an install of Perl via MacPorts. I assume  
that
get_iplayer is looking at the preinstalled Perl but I am not sure.

Although I am no expert, I have used the Terminal to install binaries  
before
so i will give it a go.

Terrence


On 11 Sep 2009, at 20:32, Andrew Brosnan wrote:

> Don't remove your system Perl. Perl is designed to be extended with  
> modules such as the ones you listed. They are normally installed as  
> needed.
>
> Modules are available free via the CPAN at http://search.cpan.org/.  
> Most perl programmers install them using the CPAN module or just  
> via the command line. If you are not familiar with using the  
> command line you may want to look at Fink http://www.finkproject.org/.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> On Sep 11, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Mine wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could someone please advise me as to which is the correct safe way
>> to uninstall and do a complete fresh install of Perl for OSX 10.4.11.
>>
>> I've spent the last 4 days trying to get a program called  
>> get_iplayer to
>> run on my Mac but is appears that I don't have a full install of  
>> Perl.
>>
>> I have been told that the following are some of the files I need:
>>
>> Built-ins:
>>
>> use Fcntl
>> use File::Copy
>> use File::Path
>> use File::stat
>> use Getopt::Long
>> use IO::File
>> use IO::Handle
>> use IO::Seekable
>> use IO::Socket
>> use POSIX
>> use POSIX
>> use Socket
>> use Time::Local
>>
>> Ones that aren't in core AFAIK:
>>
>> use CGI
>> use CGI::Cookie
>> use HTML::Entities
>> use HTTP::Cookies
>> use HTTP::Headers
>> use IPC::Open3
>> use LWP::ConnCache
>> use LWP::UserAgent
>> use URI
>> use URI::Escape
>>
>> This is the first time I have had to get involved with Perl so any  
>> help would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Terrence
>