problems with dvdrip please help

hifidelity · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 17

Hi, i did an emerge media-video/dvdrip .

Everything seemed to compile fine.. i had no errors or anything like that..

When i type in the command "dvdrip" though, i get an error message that i cannot make sense of:

Larde · Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2002 8:17 pm Post subject:

Ah, I remember, I got hit by that too. Some other perl packages had that problem also recently.
The search path for perl plugins seems to have changed. I didn't care too much to investigate, I just moved the offending subfolder (/usr/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Video) to a place that is mentioned in the error message, like /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1. Or better just make a symlink there, that should do it.
I admit, that's just a workaround, I assume someone will update and fix the ebuild sooner or later. :-)

(Am I posting too much "this is just a workaround" stuff, or is it ok to give such advice?)

Hth,
Larde.
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nmr_spectrometer · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 55

Perhaps try downloading the source and installing manually? Your error states that it is missing a perl module, perhaps it wasn't built. Try 'locate DVDRip.pm' (if your locatedb is up to date) or 'find / | grep DVDRip'. If the module was built but not put in the right place then Larde's suggestion should work.

good luck,

nmr_spectrometer