I am interested in trying SlimServer. When trying to start it (from the tar.gz perl file), I get:

070103 18:49:46 [ERROR] Fatal error: Please read "Security" section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root!

070103 18:49:46 [ERROR] Aborting

070103 18:49:46 [Note] /root/SlimServer_v6.5.0/Bin/i386-linux/mysqld: Shutdown complete

I saw somewhere to not run it as root, so I tred as mythtv:

The following modules failed to load: Digest::SHA1 YAML::Syck

To download and compile them, please run: /root/SlimServer_v6.5.0/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl Digest::SHA1 YAML::Syck

ok, so I exit su mythtv

and try

[root@mytv Bin]# ./build-perl-modules.pl
Can't locate File/Which.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/slimserver/CPAN CPAN /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at ./build-perl-modules.pl line 20.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./build-perl-modules.pl line 20.
[root@mytv Bin]#

Would it be safe (and less difficult) to get the RPM version of SlimServer instead?