[mythtv-users] Broken Perl bindings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/24/2008 03:04 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>   
>>  mythrename.pl --link /seems/ to run successfully when run from the command line.
>>  optimize_mythdb.pl is the one that causes problems. Net::UPnP::ControlPoint is
>>  the module it complains about. When I go and check what line the complaint is
>>  from (15), that was when I realised that, though rpmdrake insists I have
>>  installed the Perl-Mythtv package, optimize_mythdb.pl ain't finding it.
> Just to be clear that it's not a perl issue...if I set my HOME to /, I
> can reproduce what I'm assuming is the error you're getting:
>
> mythback root # export HOME=/
> mythback root # perl /usr/share/mythtv/contrib/optimize_mythdb.pl
> Net::UPnP::ControlPoint is not installed!
> Please install Net::UPnP or copy ~/.mythtv/config.xml
> from a working MythTV installation to //.mythtv/config.xml.
> Compilation failed in require at
> /usr/share/mythtv/contrib/optimize_mythdb.pl line 15.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /usr/share/mythtv/contrib/optimize_mythdb.pl line 15.

And, really, you should install both Net::UPnP::ControlPoint and 
Net::UPnP::QueryResponse. (I.e. if from CPAN, use "install Net::UPnP " 
followed by "install Net::UPnP::QueryResponse").

Mike