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Installing Firefox 3 on the eeepc (easy way)

September 5th, 2008 by steve in programming languages, technology

So I had to F9 my eeepc (press f9 on reboot to restore factory defaults) in an attempt to make wifi work properly. It seems good now but I’m keeping an eye on it. Anyway, I had to reinstall FF3 and found some deb packages to make life far easier.

Initial install instructions [eeeuser.com wiki] included this link to 3eportal where the deb packages and instructions reside. I had to run the dpkg command twice to make it work without errors. This method does not touch your FF2 install.

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Installing Perl Modules as Non-Root User

April 17th, 2008 by steve in programming languages, technology

I wanted to install the Perl scripts for o2sms on my new webfaction account and ran into a problem. I’ve not got root so the cpan install was going to complain when it tried to install to the default directory /usr/bin. I needed to figure out how to install o2sms and the associated modules (Crypt:SSLeay, XML::Parser etc.) as a non-root user.

I started off downloading modules and running through a manual install with perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/sneely/perl; make; make test; make install but that turned out to be too slow. So I figured out the fast way with cpan:

  1. set PERL5LIB and PERLLIB environmental variables to point at ~/perl/lib (or where ever you’re going to put your libraries — I needed to add site_perl/lib too
  2. run the cpan installer. The cpan executable wasn’t available so I ran perl -MCPAN -e shell
  3. follow the instructions to configure cpan (pretty much accept all the defaults)
  4. add ~/perl/bin to your PATH
  5. run cpan and install Bundle::CPAN WWW::SMS::IE::iesms

That was pretty much it. I had to run cpan a couple of times to update and install things like Crypt:SSLeay but now o2sms is up and running fine.

Of course later I find a page with more details on install perl modules as a non-root user.

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