{"id":2395,"date":"2011-02-12T17:51:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T00:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2011-02-12T20:36:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T03:36:06","slug":"installing-melody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"Installing Melody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/openmelody.org\/\">Melody <\/a>which is a open source extension of Movable Types blog software. It sound interesting so I thought I would give it a swing. One thing that was noted several times in my research is that Movable Type was waaaaay behind WordPress and its famous 5-minute install.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say it&#8217;s true. I got most of the install going but nowhere did it mention that the url to initiate the install was http:\/\/domain.com\/cgi-bin\/install.cgi<\/p>\n<p>Kinda an important fact. At this point I am now stuck because the install wizard states that I need HTML::Parser installed and my Snow Leopard machine is choking trying to install it. Part of the problem is I don&#8217;t know perl from a hole in the ground and part is because even though I think (though fink) I have got the latest package installed, the wizard doesn&#8217;t seem to want to acknowledge the face: deep sigh. Now I am into something called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpan.org\/\">CPAN <\/a>and the coding is getting hot and heavy.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAt this point I think the issue is I have not set up CPAN correctly because it keeps failing on the make command.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#038;^%$# I don&#8217;t have xcode installed since the upgrade to Snow Leopard. #$%@^! 3.5 gb download from the Apple Developer site<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To enter CPAN: sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell<br \/>\ninstall HTML::Parser<\/p>\n<p>That was phase one. Then it turns out mysql isn&#8217;t a default install so I had to go back and try:<br \/>\ninstall DBD::mysql<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I came across Melody which is a open source extension of Movable Types blog software. It sound interesting so I thought I would give it a swing. One thing that was noted several times in my research is that Movable Type was waaaaay behind WordPress and its famous 5-minute install. I have to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}