SlimCD updated

[mherger]

I updated the SlimCD to include SlimServer 6.2 and the latest version of
the plugins. The new update script will download nightlies from the 6.2
branch.

http://www.herger.net/slim/detail.ph...kategorie=slim

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[shvejk]

Great! That's the news I was looking for. Thanks alot.

BTW Does SimCD support Unicode and Wake On Lan?

Cheers,

[mherger]

> BTW Does SimCD support Unicode and Wake On Lan?

If you mean Unicode on the display - I don't think so as (lack of need for
this) I've never installed any fonts. I'll have a look at it. Might be
interesting.

As for WOL - I don't know! I'm not sure whether the underlying linux base
does support it. But as it is held really lean, I doubt it. And I didn't
find any information about it on the damnsmalllinux.org forums, neither.

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[mherger]

>> BTW Does SimCD support Unicode and Wake On Lan?
>
> If you mean Unicode on the display - I don't think so as (lack of need
> for this) I've never installed any fonts. I'll have a look at it. Might
> be interesting.

Hmm... The main problem are licensing issues. The fonts aren't available
for free distribution. Please see
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15573 for details. You
probably have one of those fonts (very likely Arial). It then should be
easy enough to copy it to the slimserver's Graphics folder.

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[Néstor]

Hi Michael!

I have one linux box running SlimCD on harddisk (remember?).
To upgrade to 6.2 , should I just rename the old 6.1 directory , and put there the 6.2? Anything else I should have in mind (except the script for nightlies, etc).

Thanks!

[mherger]

> I have one linux box running SlimCD on harddisk (remember?).
> To upgrade to 6.2 , should I just rename the old 6.1 directory , and
> put there the 6.2?

That's (about) what I did. Moved /opt/slimserver to /tmp, copied the new
folder from the CD to /opt/slimserver, copied the old slimserver.pref to
the new folder and restarted slimserver. I copied the /opt/slimserver from
the new CD as it already contains the latest third party plugins (like
AlienBBC).

> Anything else I should have in mind (except the

Do a backup first :-).

> script for nightlies, etc).

You should consider the latest script. The old would still work, but it
downloads the now rather unstable 6.5 trunk.

Hmm... though I don't replacing the old image with the new one for HD
installations (I didn't neither), it might be worth downloading the image
for simplicity.

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[shvejk]

>Hmm... The main problem are licensing issues. The fonts aren't available for free distribution.
>You probably have one of those fonts (very likely Arial). It then should be easy enough to copy it to the slimserver's Graphics folder.

I copied over Cyberbit.ttf to the Graphics folder. It does not work. Debug message is the following:

Trying to load GD Library for TTF support: not ok!
Error while trying to load GD Library: Can't locate loadable object for module GD in @INC

BTW CyberBit fonts are free for non-commercial use. It should be okay to add them to SlimCD.

Thanks,

[mherger]

> I copied over Cyberbit.ttf to the Graphics folder. It does not work.
> Debug message is the following:
>
> Trying to load GD Library for TTF support: not ok!
> Error while trying to load GD Library: Can't locate loadable object for
> module GD in @INC

Yep. That's exactly the point where I'm stuck. I tried to find a suitable
module and even compile it myself. But I failed even the latter :-(. I
spent a few hours - and gave up for the moment, I'm sorry.

> BTW CyberBit fonts are free for non-commercial use. It should be okay
> to add them to SlimCD.

There were too many (R)s and (TM)s on that page to make me believe this
:-). But it would have been easy enough to write a script which downloads
the trial version of code2000 on demand. But the GD problem...

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[shvejk]

>Yep. That's exactly the point where I'm stuck. I tried to find a suitable
>module and even compile it myself. But I failed even the latter :-(. I
>spent a few hours - and gave up for the moment, I'm sorry.

Hi Michael,
I am sorry to ruin your weekend. I appreciate all your efforts.
Thank you!

[mherger]

> I am sorry to ruin your weekend. I appreciate all your efforts.

Don't worry about my weekend! I gave up friday night. And then I spent an
extraordinarily beautiful late autumn day in the alps. Not ruined at all!

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