Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-04 Thread pfarrell
That was probably it. This was a virgin install on a week old Ubuntu box. Hardly had anything installed. Clearly the dependencies are not quite right. Of course, now that its installed, the prereqs are already there. So it will be hard to know if its really fixed or not. -- pfarrell Pat

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-04 Thread Patrick Dixon
Probably this then: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30814&; Since I already had 'stable' installed, I'd got past this issue before installing 'unstable' -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk Patrick Dixon's

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-03 Thread Pat Farrell
Fletch wrote: > Out of curiosity, can you post the error messages or other details on > how/why this didn't work? Sorry, I didn't know I was going to be documenting, so I didn't record the messages. I do remember that apt-get install complained a bunch about size errors, so I went to the Wiki's p

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-03 Thread Fletch
pfarrell;232407 Wrote: > What didn't work: pointing repository at Slimserver latest unstable and > just installing using apt-get Out of curiosity, can you post the error messages or other details on how/why this didn't work? -- Fletch -

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-03 Thread snarlydwarf
On plain x86 debian etch, I just used CPAN for JSON-XS-1.5 and JSON-1.14, other than that it worked. Those aren't current even in unstable for whatever reason. :/ -- snarlydwarf snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimde

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-03 Thread Pat Farrell
Patrick Dixon wrote: >It's the start-up > scripts that seem to be the key with the various linux distros - the > debian version seems to require a quite different installation to the > rpm one for example. This is a key example. I just switched to Ubuntu on two machines and Debian for one of m

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-03 Thread Patrick Dixon
Pat Farrell;232450 Wrote: > > That bug/issue is talking a lot about 64 bit, I'm just a lowly normal > intel 32. Its not clear what to do. > Only 'cos that's what I'm on! There's a comment from someone on a completely different system for whom the method worked too. And the JSON version commen

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-03 Thread pfarrell
dean blackketter;232452 Wrote: > > Can you update the wiki with your advice? Done. It should probably grow as the beta moves along. -- pfarrell Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-03 Thread dean blackketter
On Oct 3, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Pat Farrell wrote: > I posted it mostly so that its easy to find a way that actually works. > The main wiki page is dated, talking about Edgy being new and falling > back to Dapper. I tried what it says about backing up versions, > with no joy. Can you update the wi

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-03 Thread Pat Farrell
Patrick Dixon wrote: > You can install from the repo - but you may need to collect a couple of > modules first. > > see http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5509 That bug/issue is talking a lot about 64 bit, I'm just a lowly normal intel 32. Its not clear what to do. I posted it mostly so

Re: [SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-03 Thread Patrick Dixon
You can install from the repo - but you may need to collect a couple of modules first. see http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5509 -- Patrick Dixon www.at-tunes.co.uk Patrick Dixon's Profile: http://forums.slimd

[SlimDevices: Beta] Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

2007-10-03 Thread pfarrell
I have succeeded at getting SC7 installed on my Ubuntu laptop. Its not trivial, so its worth writing down. What didn't work: pointing repository at Slimserver latest unstable and just installing using apt-get Steps are: 1) use synaptic or apt-get to install libexpat1-dev 2) check out the lates