How to install libxmlsec1 via Alien::LibXMLSec on Mac OSX

1. Make sure openssl is installed
2. Download Alien::LibXMLSec (it's not on CPAN)
3. Unzip it & change to dir
4. perl Makefile.PL
5. PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl@1.1/1.1.1k/lib/pkgconfig make
6. make
7. make install

Note: To get the Makefile.PL to run (i.e. step 3½), you may also need to:

• git clone Alien::Build from its git repo
• do a `dzil build` on that
• then set the PERL5LIB to point to the built instance of Alien::Build
• ...and also make sure its deps are in PERL5LIB.

How to install DBD::Pg Perl module on Mac OSX

Make sure `pg_config` is in your path, and that's it! DBD::Pg will build normally.

Compiling DBD::mysql for Perl on Mac OSX

I will tell you how:

Disable Mac Spotlight (mds_stores) because it uses too much CPU and disk space

# Disable spotlight
sudo mdutil -a -i off
# Restart the Mac

# I reclaimed 3.5Gb of disk space

# Delete database (was only 12K for me)
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100/

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URLs open in Safari instead of Chrome from Mac OSX Terminal

To set the correct default browser on OSX, go to System preferences | General | Default web browser.

If the default browser is correct but Terminal is still not behaving correctly, then change the default browser, and change it back again.

TIOA-TIOA FTW

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