[slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

[Rod Tucker]

Marc,
 
The version I first used was 6 (Perl Source Code 
(tar.gz) on the downloads site).  I tried the nightly version in stead and 
it worked OK.  Does your write-up need a warning on this possible 
problem?
 
Also, the downloaded files continue to show up 
on the linkstation as tar.tar rather than tar.gz as mentioned in your 
write-up.  Clearly this is not a problem, but for people like me, a 
reassurance in the write-up would be helpful.
 
Once again, many thanks for your efforts on writing 
this up.  I couldn't have done it with out your help!!
 
Rod Tucker
 
 
 
 
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[slim] New How-To: Installing SlimServer on LinkStation

[Rod Tucker]

Marc,
 
I am really grateful that someone has put all this 
information down in one place.  It gave me confidence, at last, to go ahead 
and try installing the slimserver on my linkstation.
 
Everything seemed to be going just fine, but I ran 
into a problem right at the last step (under "testing and finishing") 
.
 
I typed in:  mnt/slimserver# ./slimserver.pl 
--daemon --prefsfile /mnt/slim-data/slimserver.pref --cachedir /mnt/slim-data, as you 
suggested,
 
but the following response came 
up:
 
 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/share# cd 
/mnt/slimserver
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/slimserver# 
./slimserver.pl --daemon --prefsfile /mnt/slim
-data/slimserver.pref --cachedir 
/mnt/slim-data
The following modules failed to 
load: DBD::SQLite XML::Parser HTML::Parser Compr
ess::Zlib
 
To download and compile them, 
please run: /mnt/slimserver/Bin/build-perl-modules
.pl
 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/slimserver# 
ps -A
  PID TTY  
TIME CMD
    1 ?    
00:00:04 init
    2 ?    
00:00:00 keventd
    3 ?    
00:00:02 ksoftirqd_CPU0
    4 ?    
00:00:55 kswapd
 
[many lines deleted]
 
1391 ?    
00:00:09 atalkd
 1486 ?    
00:00:00 papd
 1488 ?    
00:00:00 afpd
 1490 ?    
00:00:10 smbd
 1527 ?    
00:00:00 ppc_uartd
 1590 ?    
00:00:00 in.telnetd
 1591 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
 1605 pts/0    00:00:00 ps
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/slimserver# 
/mnt/slimserver/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl
Welcome to the Slim Devices perl 
module installer.
 
These packages are needed for 
SlimServer 6 to function.
You will need a C compiler (gcc), 
make, and perl installed.
 
*** Ignore any warnings about 
AppConfig. ***
 
Please enter a perl binary to use 
(defaults to /usr/bin/perl)
This must be the same perl binary 
that you ran this program with -->
 
=
 
As you 
can see, I tried running "mnt/slimserver# 
/mnt/slimserver/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl" as suggested by the 
program.
 
I tried 
typing in "slimserver.pl" when it asked for the perl binary, but this didn't 
work.    I don't think I have a C compiler on my computer, and I 
don't know that the modules  DBD::SQLite XML::Parser HTML::Parser 
Compress::Zlib are.  
 
Any 
suggestions?
 
Rod 
Tucker
 
BTW, when I copied perl and the 
slimserver to the relevant directories, both files had a .tar.tar suffix rather 
than the .tar.gz suffix as listed in your notes.  However "tar xzvf 
filename.tar.tar" (rather than "tar xzvf filename.tar.gz") seemed to work 
OK.  
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