Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Advice for those considering Linux

2009-03-05 Thread cooppw02
ClanClover;403170 Wrote: > What's all this about Linux not playing/serving wma files? Most of my > music files are in flac format but some are wma and these play on my > Linux (Ubuntu 8.10) machine and, before I moved my server to a QNAP > (which runs Linux), I had no problems playing wma files o

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Beginner having trouble upgrading to 7.3.2

2009-03-05 Thread Mnyb
Sorry to hear that :-/ rpm is a kind of zipped installer archive I think it's temporarily stored somewhere if you are using wget first you can probably find it somewhere. I just "rpm Uvh http:/ww." directly from the slim website. rpm is redhat packet manager i think ? Apparently ripserver

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Beginner having trouble upgrading to 7.3.2

2009-03-05 Thread Swimmerbird123
OK. So I'm not someone who can give up that easily... and I'd really not like to have be stuck on 7.1.1 for the life of this machine. Before going out of business, the Ripserver company made available a script that could be run to upgrade SqueezeCenter to 7.2. This script downloads an RPM from

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Beginner having trouble upgrading to 7.3.2

2009-03-05 Thread Swimmerbird123
Thanks for your suggestions. I have now tried them all but still no luck. The RPM seems to do its stuff, and the squeezecenter service apparent starts (a status check shows it is running) but after a minute or two it stops. Evidently the SqueezeCenter is implemented on the Ripserver in some ki

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Anyone running 7.3.2 on Debian 5.0 'Lenny' ??

2009-03-05 Thread eschurig
Ok, thanks. I've been contemplating the move to lenny as well. -- eschurig eschurig's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2175 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60687 _

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Anyone running 7.3.2 on Debian 5.0 'Lenny' ??

2009-03-05 Thread Ben Sandee
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM, eschurig wrote: > > If you run lenny right now should you use the stable or testing version > of SC? Run whichever version you want, they aren't tied to the Debian release. SqueezeCenter stable works fine on lenny, as does testing. Ben __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Advice for those considering Linux

2009-03-05 Thread iPhone
Quad;403412 Wrote: > That says all. I once tried setting up Ubuntu 8.10 as a total newbie. It > took me 2 weeks to get all running the way I liked it. But that should > be part of the game. If you don't agree on this, you should stay away > from Linux. > > Btw: SqueezeCenter was very easy to set

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Anyone running 7.3.2 on Debian 5.0 'Lenny' ??

2009-03-05 Thread eschurig
If you run lenny right now should you use the stable or testing version of SC? The release date for the stable version of SC as shown in http://debian.slimdevices.com/dists/ is January 22. This is before lenny went stable so isn't this technically still the etch version? SC testing has a post l

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Advice for those considering Linux

2009-03-05 Thread Quad
Rein;402134 Wrote: > After wasting a weekend thinking I could set up... That says all. I once tried setting up Ubuntu 8.10 as a total newbie. It took me 2 weeks to get all running the way I liked it. But that should be part of the game. If you don't agree on this, you should stay away from Linux

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux Newbie Question

2009-03-05 Thread btooze
Thanks for the advice Coopw02. I loaded Pysdm (which mounted the drive) and after a rescan all was working fine. I was not aware that I did not have to go via Firefox, thanks for the tip. I now have a PC that I can just turn on and start using my Duet without problems. Thanks again to all. Bri