Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS debian unstable package fails to run with perl 5.20
On my Debian Jessie box changing the entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/squeezecenter.list to point to the "unstable" branch got me LMS 7.8.1 which installed and ran first time, which is great. Thanks to everyone on this thread. Questions- - No mention of the 7.9.x branch in Synaptic Package Manager ? - The package description text that displays in Synaptic doesn't mention the close coupling the system has to the OS's Perl version. As getting it wrong silently breaks LMS it would be good to see this mentioned! - If the 7.x.x versions of LMS are dependent on specific versions of Perl is it not possible to have this dependency described in the package definition? I thought that was the added-vaue that packaging systems like apt gave you, or is that a naive view? BTW, a message for the maintainer(s) of Logitech Media Centre- The reason I logged back into these forums after 5 years (!) was that LMS and my Squeezebox Duet are a part of our daily lives. I rip every CD I buy to FLAC, save it on our home server, and play the music through the Duet Hi-Fi amp. Aside from a few niggles like tagging funnies and the slow wakeup time of the Duet remote it's one those rare bits of technology that "just works", extremely well. Like a lot of customers I was very sad to see Logitech kill off the "local network" product line, and I've yet to find a product that does the same as well, let alone better. So I appreciate the efforts that are being made to keep LMS alive and updated. We wouldn't shout so loud when it broke if it wasn't such a great little product ;-) colin_e's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33457 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102022 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] LMS debian unstable package fails to run with perl 5.20
crabbz wrote: > Hi! The LMS 7.8.1 package for debian unstable from the > debian.slimdevices.com repository fails to run after unstable upgraded > to perl 5.20. The server logs just show the following: > ... I'm really glad to have resurrected my old login on the fortums and found this thread. I spent an evening yesterday wondering why latest "Testing" LMS package (7.4.1?) the package manager picked up from debian.slimdevices.org was doing the "restart every 5 seconds" thing on my newly-built machine using Jessie Testing. Couple of points- Re: - mherger wrote: > FWIW: I added binaries for 5.20 on 64 bit Linux to 7.8.1 and 7.9.0 Apologies if i'm being dim, but how do I ensure I pick up exactly the right build? A link to the download package or the right recipe for /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* would be very helpful. - As an observation, not everyone running a leading-edge build of a Distro is necessarily a hardcore hacker who does builds from source in their sleep. In my case i'm aiming to build a home server to replace an elderly Synology NAS, and discovered I needed the Jessie build of Debian to get support for my hardware chipset (Intel Haswell). - Perl itself is a high level language that's some distance from the low level hardware and OS details. It's a shame LMS is now caught up in this nightmarish-sounding web of dependencies on precise versions of sub-packages and libraries. Short term it's hard to see an easy way out. Long term i can see a future where everything is shipped as a complete container package with all its dependencies using something like Docker. Ok, so your media centre will be a 500MB download that includes every library it uses and half an OS, but at least it will run out of the box :-} colin_e's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33457 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102022 ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
