Re: [Slashcode-general] New Install

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On May 24, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Reid Maynard wrote:

> First I got the 2.2.6 tarball running; then I noticed many features
> were missing. So I followed the "get it from CVS" directions from
> http://www.slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/26/2117247&tid=4&tid=1
>
> All was fine. I read the instructions. Deleted and recreated the MySQL
> database. make && make install on the new "slash" code I downloaded.
> Then, when I performed the
>
> bin/install-slashsite -u VIRTUAL_USER
>
> step, all went well, EXCEPT for the following...
>
> Error:Slash::Install:/usr/local/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/i686- 
> linux/Slash/Install.pm:368:virtuser='slash'
> -- hostinfo='Localhost via UNIX socket' -- Table 'slash.sections'
> doesn't exist -- INSERT into sections (section, artcount, title)
> VALUES ('newsvac', 0, 'NewsVac Links')
> Which was called
> by:Slash::Install:/usr/local/perl-5.8.8/lib/site_perl/5.8.8/i686- 
> linux/Slash/Install.pm:167
> === (NewsVac) Failed on :INSERT into sections (section, artcount,
> title) VALUES ('newsvac', 0, 'NewsVac Links'):
>
>> From poking around, it seems I may have jumbled the code streams?

Yes, I'd say that's it. be sure you

shutdown apache
shutdown slashd
do a 'drop database slash' and then 'create database slash',
rm -fR /usr/local/slash
cd /usr/local/src/slash
make UNINST=1 install
then run install-slashsite

>> ! as
> the new code should not be trying to create this table anymore.

I'm got an install of our version of T_2_5_0_156 running here, and  
I've no such "sec%" tables.

>
> Does slash save data in the perl modules?! I did not reinstall those.

No.

>
> BTW - I got R_2_5_0_94 -- is there something newer?

I would use the latest T-tag.

  Shane