After upgrading to Nevada b92 SqueezeCenter refused to start with the following error:

But the actual problem is Scalar::Util. To solve the problem reinstall Scalar::Util and then Compress::Zlib. Use force install if CPAN says that the latest version is already installed:

Sources: whirlpool.net.au and Usenet forums.

Just a brain dump.

• Firefox for Solaris can be downloaded from Contributed Releases
• 3.0 (release) is actually 3.0rc2 for Solaris
• 3.0 eats less resources than 2.x
• Font anti-aliasing is broken (also, see here)
• 3.0 looks faster than 2.x
• 3.0 is EXTREMELY slow if x-forwarded (I tried to forward from a non-global zone to a global one). I heard that the reason might be Xrender lib. Related bug 6699647?
• X-forwarding crashes Nevada b92
• Most of useful extensions are not (yet?) ported to 3.0 (e.g. adblock(updated), tabmixplus (here's a dev version), X-Ray)
• 3.0 is not included into b93 (see here)
• Field Guide to Firefox 3
• Firefox 3 Revealed - Free PDF book
• BadGC with flash in non-current tab on Solaris (This bug should be fixed in Flash Player 9.0.125.0. See announcement)
• 3.0 becomes an unkillable process if started from a zone

The idea was to use "bare" SqueezeCenter without bundled CPAN (the CPAN directory was moved away) modules, Solaris 11 (or Nevada build 88) and supplied with Solaris PERL and MySQL.

Then if you start slimserver.pl the errors will let you know which CPAN modules to install. For example:

Or For Nevada b95:

Usually, the bundled CPAN is not up to date. So, let's install it first:

To install (or upgrade) a module run the following:

The only exception is Encode/Detect/Detector.pm or Encode::Detect::Detector. It's has not being touched by the developer for many years and is not recommended for use. The module can be compiled with c++ or g++ (instead of used by default cc or gcc), but with a lot of pain and manual intervention. The easiest way is to get rid of it completely:

• Remove Encode::Detect::Detector from modules.conf (in the root directory of SqueezeCenter)
• Remove or comment the following line in Slim/Utils/Unicode.pm:
  use Encode::Detect::Detector;

For the first time I did not have to do anything special to compile wine. Just configure and gmake. The rest is pretty the same: Picasa runs at 100% CPU load, Firefox 3b5 crashes every 5 minutes ;-)

New release, new features, new bug fixes and new bugs.
Let's start with compiling.
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TinyMCE (platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor) is developed by Moxiecode Systems AB.

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In order to run several Firefox-es with individual profiles simultaneously, the browser should be started with –no-remote option:

firefox -P prof-01  --no-remote&

firefox -P prof-02  --no-remote&

… etc

where prof-01, prof-02 are profile names

Probably your mc is compiled by Blastwave (CSW) and you are running Solaris 11. Try to download it from Ibiblio  and compile it by yourself.

Recommended configure settings:

 ./configure --enable-extcharset --enable-charset --with-samba

UTF8 is still not supported, though.

See Part I

Beginning with wine 0.9.57 "-lsunmath" is needed. You can get the libsunmath library from blastwave, for example:

LIBS      = -lsocket -lnsl -lintl -L/opt/csw/lib -lsunmath

This is the error you might get if the library is not specified in dlls/wined3d/Makefile:

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Unfortunately, wine can not be compiled under Solaris "as is". Some tricks are needed.
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