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 ;-)

This is something what blew me away, made me listening despite all my efforts to concentrate on my work, what gave me goose bumps all over the place.

Just look at the list of musicians:

o- Lakshminarayanan Shankar (10-string double violin)
o- Vikku Vinayakram (ghatam)
o- Zakir Hussain (tabla)

Raga Aberi was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.

Umashankar solo, then Umashankar and Selvaganesh