On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:53:35 -0000, Patrick Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "it's worked very well for Linux." > > Really? As someone struggling to get FC3 configured, googling for > information produces many more people with Linux problems than there are > solutions out there.
Linux runs beautifully for me, though it isn't completely without issues. OTOH I have been using Linux for quite some time, so it's way of doing things has become native to me, making it easier for me to use than Windows or Mac OS X (I am an Apple fan, btw - but Apple made newer versions of OS X difficult to use on my hardware, so I haven't used a recent version of OS X in some time) > > BTW anyone care to help with my problem getting Slimserver 5.4.0 to start up > correctly? In fc3 for me it was as simple as installing the rpm. I did notice that in the rpm spec file they did something I really dislike - they turned off the autoreqprov (common with perl) without then specifying what specifically IS required. It may be a dependency issue that you are having. To fulfill dependencies, I personally only use stuff packaged by rpm - and I'm picky about my repositories - I only use fedora, fedora-extras, rpm.livna.org, and (for java) jpackage.org. If something I want isn't in one of those repositories - then I build my own rpm, with few exceptions (realplayer, slimserver are only two I can think of). One thing I am planning on doing when my SB2 arrives is taking the slimserver 6 src.rpm and cleaning up the spec file so that it meats the Fedora Extras packaging guidelines (and specifying the dependencies), and then submit it to rpm.livna.org - so that for Fedora users, installing it will be painless. Unfortunately it will have to go into rpm.livna.org because the mp3 dependency (and faad2 dependency) can only be filled by packages with patent distribution issues, hence rpm.livna.org I wish I knew what was giving you issues with slimserver. Some thought - disable SELinux Get the src.rpm - comment out the disabling of autoreqprov - build the rpm, and do a test install to see what (if any) dependencies rpm complains about. Oh - as an FYI - the place where I see the most useful help for Fedora is http://www.linuxquestions.org/ in the Fedora forum. -- http://mpeters.us/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
