Messed up install

I had first posted this in comp.lang.perl, but it is probably more
appropriate here. I had written a small script to do some thumbnail
work (I am on a Windows XP system, but will run this either here or on
the Linux host.) I was going to use the GD module, but ppm3 did not
find it. So I decided to use Imager. Imager, however, decided it did
not want to do a jpeg. That is sort of question 1, what module should
I use for some simple graphics stuff?

But here it gets bad. I decided to try the script on the Linux host,
where I don't have root privileges. And when I went to run my script
it failed because it could not find ConfigReader::Simple. So I decided
to load that locally. ConfigReader::Simple, of course, required other
things and pretty soon I was lost trying to get all that installed. (I
followed the advice from
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/04/10/mod_perl.html.) I ended up messed
up so I tried to back up and deleted all of the downloaded stuff and,
I thought, all of the stuff installed in my local bin and lib. But
when I went to re-install I was told that nothing needed to be done.
But my scripts still fail. What do I do now?


TIA.


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Re: Messed up install

"Matt Silberstein" wrote in
message news:h37an19r8vk8t43hl0u8207mallvu2gre5@4ax.com...
> I had first posted this in comp.lang.perl, but it is probably more
> appropriate here. I had written a small script to do some thumbnail
> work (I am on a Windows XP system, but will run this either here or on
> the Linux host.) I was going to use the GD module, but ppm3 did not
> find it.

ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/GD.ppd

Cheers,
Rob

Re: Messed up install

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:44:01 +1100, in comp.lang.perl.modules ,
"Sisyphus" in
<43758168$0$30935$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>
>"Matt Silberstein" wrote in
>message news:h37an19r8vk8t43hl0u8207mallvu2gre5@4ax.com...
>> I had first posted this in comp.lang.perl, but it is probably more
>> appropriate here. I had written a small script to do some thumbnail
>> work (I am on a Windows XP system, but will run this either here or on
>> the Linux host.) I was going to use the GD module, but ppm3 did not
>> find it.
>
>ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/GD.ppd

That seemed to work. Now I just have the messed up install on the
Linux box.

Thanks.


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Re: Messed up install

"Matt Silberstein" wrote in
message news:vdpfn154b7n1i2e9ootnod74t16r3cinlp@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:44:01 +1100, in comp.lang.perl.modules ,
> "Sisyphus" in
> <43758168$0$30935$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Matt Silberstein" wrote in
> >message news:h37an19r8vk8t43hl0u8207mallvu2gre5@4ax.com...
> >> I had first posted this in comp.lang.perl, but it is probably more
> >> appropriate here. I had written a small script to do some thumbnail
> >> work (I am on a Windows XP system, but will run this either here or on
> >> the Linux host.) I was going to use the GD module, but ppm3 did not
> >> find it.
> >
> >ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/GD.ppd
>
> That seemed to work. Now I just have the messed up install on the
> Linux box.
>

I couldn't quite figure out what had happened from your description of the
linux install. Can you install GD there, too ?

Cheers,
Rob

Re: Messed up install

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:20:17 +1100, in comp.lang.perl.modules ,
"Sisyphus" in
<43792a05$0$25853$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>
>"Matt Silberstein" wrote in
>message news:vdpfn154b7n1i2e9ootnod74t16r3cinlp@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:44:01 +1100, in comp.lang.perl.modules ,
>> "Sisyphus" in
>> <43758168$0$30935$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"Matt Silberstein" wrote in
>> >message news:h37an19r8vk8t43hl0u8207mallvu2gre5@4ax.com...
>> >> I had first posted this in comp.lang.perl, but it is probably more
>> >> appropriate here. I had written a small script to do some thumbnail
>> >> work (I am on a Windows XP system, but will run this either here or on
>> >> the Linux host.) I was going to use the GD module, but ppm3 did not
>> >> find it.
>> >
>> >ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/GD.ppd
>>
>> That seemed to work. Now I just have the messed up install on the
>> Linux box.
>>
>
>I couldn't quite figure out what had happened from your description of the
>linux install. Can you install GD there, too ?

You could not figure it out because I had started from such a wrong
place that it was all messed up. But I seem to have fixed those
problems now. And, yes, I now have everything install properly (I
hope) and can get on with the issue of frustrating myself with coding
instead of with installing.

Thanks.


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Matt Silberstein

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Re: Messed up install

"Matt Silberstein"
..
..
> And, yes, I now have everything install properly (I
> hope) and can get on with the issue of frustrating myself with coding
> instead of with installing.
>

Heh .... I guess that moving on from the "frustration of installing" to the
"frustration of coding" is the modern computer programmer's definition of
"progress" :-)

Cheers,
Rob

Re: Messed up install

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:30:50 +1100, in comp.lang.perl.modules ,
"Sisyphus" in
<437b18b4$0$12139$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>
>"Matt Silberstein"
>.
>.
>> And, yes, I now have everything install properly (I
>> hope) and can get on with the issue of frustrating myself with coding
>> instead of with installing.
>>
>
>Heh .... I guess that moving on from the "frustration of installing" to the
>"frustration of coding" is the modern computer programmer's definition of
>"progress" :-)

In that case I have now progressed to being to frustration by
customer. The customer has decided to use what I consider inferior
images and wants to use that source for the thumbs. And want what I
consider an inferior layout. Oh well, that is their decision.


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