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  • Installing Shepherd onto OSX Lion

    I’ve been building a replacement server for my current mythtv box that is running on OS X Lion.

    To install shepherd epg grabber I used the following procedure:

     

    Install Active Perl form ActiveState.

    http://www.activestate.com/activeperl

     
    make sure you add activeperl to your .profile:
    export PATH=/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.16/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
     

    install shepherd prerequisites:

    sudo cpan
    install XML::Parser
    install XML::Twig
    install XML::Writer
    install Date::Manip
    install LWP
    install Memoize
    install Storable
    install HTML::Parser
    install HTML::TreeBuilder
    install SOAP::Lite
    install CGI
    install Term::ProgressBar
    install PerlIO::gzip
    install Compress::Zlib
    install Lingua::Preferred
    install Unicode::String
    install Lingua::EN::Numbers::Ordinate
    install Log::TraceMessages
    install WWW::Mechanize
    install HTML::TableExtract
    install Net::SSL
    install XML::LibXML

    exit

     

    Install perl MySQL client

    ppm install DBD-mysql

     

    then install HTTP Cache Transparent proxy

    ppm install HTTP-cache-transparent

     

    Download xmltv

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv/files/

    uncompress xmltv, change directories and compile

    perl Makefile.PL