Linux converting from manual installation to PPA woes.

[John Reay]

john at system7 ~ $ type -aP perl
/usr/bin/perl
john at system7 ~ $ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 22, subversion 1 (v5.22.1) built for
x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
(with 60 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

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On 26 November 2017 at 08:12, RS <richard22j at zoho.com> wrote:
> From: Roger Bell_West
> Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2017 8:18 AM
>
>> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 11:10:01PM -0500, John Reay wrote:
>>>
>>> OK....I did some RTFM on 'type' and 'hash', which led me to open a new
>>> shell.
>>> That solved my reported problem, but I'm now back to my initial
>>> problem which is that when a run get_player I get "segmentation
>>> fault".
>
>
>> Please post output which includes the error message you report.
>
>
> I agree that it would be helpful to see the actual error message, possibly
> accompanied with --debug output to narrow down where the error is occurring.
>
> I am a novice when it comes to Linux (and Perl) so please excuse me if what
> I say is not sensible or uses the wrong terminology.
>
> Try
> type -aP perl
> perl -v
>
> get_iplayer has been fairly well tested, so it may be other parts of John's
> installation are at fault.  It is clear from the output we have seen so far
> that get_iplayer has been successfully invoked, and that it is the ppa
> installation of v3.06, so the path to get_iplayer is not a problem.  The
> first command I have suggested should tell him if he has more than one
> instance of Perl, possibly through not uninstalling the previous instance,
> and the path to them.  The second will identify the Perl version.
> perl -V
> will also identify the patches, but someone else will need to explain how to
> identify the dependencies because that is beyond my level of knowledge.
>
> Best wishes
> Richard
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