[mythtv-users] Error running optimize_mythdb.pl...

Henry A Harper III hah at alumni.rice.edu
Mon Jan 22 01:18:06 UTC 2007


> On 1/21/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 21, 2007, at 2:13 PM, A JM wrote:
> >
> > > I'm getting the following error when trying to run any of the scripts
> > > in the contrib folder perl is installed as far as I know but I'm still
> > > getting an error.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any ideas?
> > >
> > > [root at myth contrib]# ./optimize_mythdb.pl
> > > Can't locate MythTV.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
> >
> > Certainly looks like it isn't finding MythTV.pm. I'd try to find out
> > if the file exists in your system and, if it does, why perl isn't
> > looking for it in the right place.
> >
> > You could just copy it or link it to the location where perl is
> > looking (/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6...)
> >
> > Use locate to find the missing file perhaps?
> >
> > But I'm certainly no perl expert, I'm just reading what the error
> > message told you.
> >
> > Knowing what distro, Myth version etc., and how you installed Myth
> > might help but the problem is simply a missing or misplaced MythTV.pm
> > perl module file.
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>
> Yes, I'm running SVN is it as simple as installing subversion-perl or
> is there more to it than that? Any there other dependency's?

I think you need to specify an option in the mythtv configure script to have
the MythTV.pm file created and installed. I noticed that the last time I
updated & compiled from svn.



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