Hi all, I purchased a Dell Mini to act as a low power Squeezebox server instead of my main workstation. Since I don't plan to install a lot of applications on this machine (maybe occasional email and browsing) I decided to cut down the OS overhead and have Dell install Ubuntu and try my hand with a Linux variant. After about a week of tinkering though, I still haven't been able to install the most recent stable version of Squeezecenter.
The installed version of Ubuntu is 8.04. It is an "lpia" version. I'm a Linux/Ubuntu noob, so I don't really know what that implies, but I do know it meant I couldn't just add the slimdevices repository and add the program that way. My Synaptic installer was looking for an lpia version that wasn't there. I ended up locating the .deb on the server, downloading it, then installed using right click and "Open with GDebi Package Installer". That process seemed to work until I tried to actually run squeezecenter. I couldn't access the server through the standard web pages. After searching the forums, it seemed like a good start was to check var/log/squeezecenter/server.log. In this file, all I see is: <Timestamp> Squeezecenter died. Restarting. The same restarting message appears every 5 seconds. I found one forum message regarding this error. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47875&page=2 The install libfreetype6 thing didn't seem to do anything for me. Now I am stuck. I really don't know how to troubleshoot in Ubuntu. My fundamental Linux knowledge is next to zero although I'm comfortable tinkering and have been a SC user for many years. I'm looking for help and trying not to get frustrated. Other information: Synaptic shows squeezecenter 7.3.1 and PERL 5.8.8-12 installed...not sure if that is important. Any suggestions on how to proceed? -- dingJam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dingJam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22565 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57553 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
