Installing SC7 on Ubuntu

[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 latest and greatest from svn
svn co http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/trunk

3) configure the perl
./build-perl-modules.pl


4) execute slimserver.pl

[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

[pfarrell]

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 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.

Hey, this is beta, its OK for the distro packages to be a bit rough.
But its gonna need to be a lot cleaner for general release.

[dean]

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 wiki with your advice?

[pfarrell]

Can you update the wiki with your advice?

Done.
It should probably grow as the beta moves along.

[Patrick Dixon]

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 comment is relevant to a wider audience I think.

The apt-get method worked absolutely fine for me on the stable distros, so I'm sure it will get sorted for SC7 release. 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.

[pfarrell]

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 my servers, and I don't yet grok the startup stuff. I
was so used to the RPM style, file names, etc. that it was second nature.

OT, I'm liking pure Debian better than Ubuntu so far, less user
friendly, separates the men from the poseurs.

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Pat Farrell
http://www.pfarrell.com/

[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. :/

[Mark Miksis]

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?

[pfarrell]

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 pages that
explicitly talk about size errors and working around them. I tried them
literally, and making leaps that Dapper -> Edgy -> Fiesty without joy.

I also noted that running the Bin/build-perl-modules.pl
even as root, doesn't move anything interesting into
/usr/local/slimserver. It complains if the directory isn't there, and
creates CPAN and CPAN/arch with assorted stuff.

It does run if I go to my sandbox/trunk/server and run ./slimserver.pl


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Pat Farrell
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