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--- en:release:3.08_release_notes [2018/02/27 05:29] – anupama
+++ en:release:3.08_release_notes [2018/11/23 08:29] – [Ubuntu/Linux perl errors about Bibtex/Latex/MediaWiki plugins] anupama
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 Many browsers have stopped supporting Java applets. Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and perhaps Microsoft Edge, still support it. So these next steps are for Windows machines using Internet Explorer.
-If your end users will be using the GLI applet, you also need to do the following steps //in addition to// [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:release:3.08_release_notes#setting_up_a_remote_greenstone_3_server|Setting up your remote Greenstone 3 server]]. These next steps require the Java SDK -- if you don't already have this you can download it from [[http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html|here]]; make sure that the Java SDK's bin directory is included in the PATH environment variable, which may not have been done automatically upon installation.
+If your end users will be using the GLI applet, you also need to do the following steps //in addition to// [[http://wiki.greenstone.org/doku.php?id=en:release:3.08_release_notes#setting_up_a_remote_greenstone_3_server|Setting up your remote Greenstone 3 server]]. These next steps require the Java SDK -- if you don't already have this you can download it from [[http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html|here]]; make sure that the Java SDK's bin directory is included in the PATH environment variable, which may or may not have been done automatically upon installing Java.
   * In the Greenstone "gli" directory, run
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 ==== Troubleshooting ====
+=== Ubuntu/Linux perl errors about Bibtex/Latex/MediaWiki plugins or other perl files ===
+This can happen when running GLI or the command line building scripts.
+The errors can look like:
+<code>
+Running the Greenstone Librarian Interface...
+Version: 2.87
+User cache dir: /root/.gli/cache/
+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/(/.*){ <-- HERE ,41}/ at /usr/local/Greenstone/perllib/plugins/DirectoryPlugin.pm line 199.
+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 /usr/local/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/_content_(\s*){ <-- HERE / at /usr/local/Greenstone/perllib/plugins/MediaWikiPlugin.pm line 506.
+...
+</code>
+They're caused by the newer version of perl (that comes installed with newer versions Ubuntu) no longer accepting some older perl syntax.
+If you would like to continue using GS3.08, we've patched the affected plugins. The instructions to use the patch are:
+. Optional: Back up your  GS3.08's ''gs2build/perllib/plugins'' and ''gs2build/perllib/cpan/'' folders.
+. Download [[http://trac.greenstone.org/export/32634/patches/GS308PluginsForNewerPerlUbuntu.tar.gz|the tarball]] containing the patch and extract its contents.
+. Six files should have been extracted:
+- Put the 4 plugin files into your GS3.08's ''gs2build/perllib/plugins'' folder.
+- put Escape.pm into the ''gs2build/perllib/cpan/URI'' folder.
+- put PP.pm into into the ''gs2build/perllib/cpan/JSON'' folder.
+. Use a //new terminal// to launch GLI or any commands that previously failed with errors.
 === Mac Installer fails ===