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 ====== Greenstone 2.87 Release Notes ====== ====== Greenstone 2.87 Release Notes ======
  
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   * If not, then please consult the Greenstone FAQ at http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/index.php/Greenstone_FAQ\\ to see if any of your questions are answered and for further workarounds of known issues. If any issues persist, write to us on [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:support | the Greenstone Mailing List]].   * If not, then please consult the Greenstone FAQ at http://wiki.greenstone.org/wiki/index.php/Greenstone_FAQ\\ to see if any of your questions are answered and for further workarounds of known issues. If any issues persist, write to us on [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:support | the Greenstone Mailing List]].
  
-  * If you're running Greenstone 2.87 on a machine where the version of Perl is later than 5.18 (e.g. perl 5.22), as may happen when you upgrade your Ubuntu to 16.04 or later, and your GLI does not start up properly, then first stop and restart GLI in debug mode to get better error reporting: ''./gli/gli.sh -debug''. \\ Upon running GLI in debug mode, if you see some error messages such as the following when GLI fails to start:+  * If you're running Greenstone 2.87 on a machine where the version of Perl is later than 5.18 (e.g. perl 5.22), as may happen when you upgrade your Ubuntu to 16.04 or later, and if your GLI does not start up properly, then first stop and restart GLI in debug mode to get better error reporting: ''./gli/gli.sh -debug''. \\ Upon running GLI in debug mode, if you see some error messages such as the following when GLI fails to start:
 <code> <code>
 Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\s*)body(\s*){ <-- HERE (\s*)$/ at /home/karl/Greenstone/perllib/plugins/MediaWikiPlugin.pm line 280. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\s*)body(\s*){ <-- HERE (\s*)$/ at /home/karl/Greenstone/perllib/plugins/MediaWikiPlugin.pm line 280.
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 </code>\\ Upon seeing such error messages: </code>\\ Upon seeing such error messages:
  
-0. Quit GLI if it's running.+0. Exit GLI in the proper manner if it's running.
  
 1. Optional: Back up your  GS2.87's ''gs2build/perllib/plugins'' and ''gs2build/perllib/cpan/'' folders (to restore if the patches below don't work). 1. Optional: Back up your  GS2.87's ''gs2build/perllib/plugins'' and ''gs2build/perllib/cpan/'' folders (to restore if the patches below don't work).
  
-2. Download GS287PluginsForNewerPerlUbuntu.tar.gz, which contains the patched up files, from [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/patches|patches]] and extract its contents.+2. Download the ''GS287PluginsForNewerPerlUbuntu.tar.gz'' tarball, which contains the patched up files, from [[http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/patches|the patches page]] and extract the tarball's contents.\\ If you're on a Windows machine, you may want to download the ''GS287PluginsForNewerPerlUbuntu.zip'' ZIP file instead and extract that.
  
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   * put PP.pm into into the ''gs2build/perllib/cpan/JSON'' folder.   * put PP.pm into into the ''gs2build/perllib/cpan/JSON'' folder.
  
-4. Use a //new terminal// to launch GLI or any commands that previously failed with errors.+4. Use a //new terminal// to launch GLI or any commands that previously failed with errors. Hopefully GLI will launch successfully now.
  
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