Ipkg failed to download Squeezecenter 7.3.2

[TimT]

I tried to install Squeezecenter 7.3.2 on a TeraStation Pro v.1 using ipkg. Here is the error message:

root@SERVER:~# ipkg install squeezecenter
Installing squeezecenter (7.3.2-1) to root...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op.../unstable//squ
eezecenter_7.3.2-1_powerpc.ipk
Configuring sed
//usr/lib/ipkg/info/sed.postinst: /opt/bin/update-alternatives: No such file or
directory
postinst script returned status 127
ERROR: sed.postinst returned 127
Nothing to be done
An error ocurred, return value: 22.
Collected errors:
ipkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 1: `wget --passive-ftp
-q -P /tmp/ipkg-zYXQ66 http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...ds101g/cross/u
nstable//squeezecenter_7.3.2-1_powerpc.ipk'
Failed to download squeezecenter. Perhaps you need to run 'ipkg update'?

Needless to say, I have run 'ipkg update'.

Just before trying SC I tried to install sed and got the same error message. Is this significant?

Ipkg works because bash successfully installed.

Thanks,

Tim T

[bzhou]

I did not know that TeraStation Pro v.1 can use the optware/ds101g powerpc feed. How did you setup ipkg on it? Any pointer to the guide/howto you're following?

Looking at the build recipe of optware/make/ds101-bootstrap.mk, as part of the bootstrap.xsh, it will install an embedded ipkg-opt.ipk. The ipkg-opt.ipk should include an /opt/bin/update-alternatives. If it's installed under /opt/bin, you can try symlink it to /usr/bin.

[TimT]

To get telnet access, I updated the TS's firmware to version 1.12 by downloading the file from http://homepage.ntlworld.com/itimpi/...tm#TERA_TELNET.

To install wget to the TS, I downloaded the acp_commander.jar file and entered
java -jar acp_commander.jar -t <IP ADDRESS> -o -addons
from the c:\ prompt of my Windows computer.

To install ipkg on the TS I followed the instructions on this Web page for PowerPC:
http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index...(for_end-users), specifically:

wget http://downloads.nas-central.org/LS1...0.99.153-1.tgz
tar -C / -xvzf powerpc-hdhlan-ipkg-0.99.153-1.tgz

Then I added the four ipkg feeds to /etc/ipkg.conf that are listed on that Web page.

As I mentioned, I was able to install flac as well as bash. Here is the output for the flac install (still showing the error installing sed):

root@SERVER:~# ipkg install flac
Installing flac (1.2.1-1) to root...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op.../unstable/flac
_1.2.1-1_powerpc.ipk
Configuring flac
Configuring sed
//usr/lib/ipkg/info/sed.postinst: /opt/bin/update-alternatives: No such file or
directory
postinst script returned status 127
ERROR: sed.postinst returned 127
Successfully terminated.
root@SERVER:~#

I am afraid I don't understand your post on how to fix the sed error.

Any ideas on the problem with installing squeezecenter?

Thanks,

Tim T

[bzhou]

Do you have an /opt/bin/update-alternatives file?
EDIT: you don't have /opt/bin/update-alternatives but have /usr/bin/update-alternatives.
So you can try "cd /opt/bin; ln -s /usr/bin/update-alternatives ." as a workaround.

[TimT]

Thank you for your help. I have hit a brick wall. My attempts to install Squeezecenter on the Terastation via your ipkg feed are not working. So far, the best I have been able to do is download a tgz file and untar it. But I do not know what to do after that.

[TimT]

Getting closer ...

The problem with ipkg is that it was looking for a temporary directory to which to download the file that did not exist. I added the "--tmp-dir" option to force download to the "squeeze" directory. However, I get an error when "sed" runs -- it complains about the invalid option "i". (See install output below.)

I assume that I need to pick up instructions from here: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52466. But how to deal with the invalid option "i"?


root@SERVER:~# ipkg install --tmp-dir=/squeeze squeezecenter
Installing squeezecenter (7.3.2-1) to root...
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/op...-1_powerpc.ipk
Configuring squeezecenter
Enter SQUEEZECENTER_HOME location [/home/slimserver]:
sed: invalid option -- i
Usage: sed [OPTION]... {script-only-if-no-other-script} [input-file]...

-n, --quiet, --silent
suppress automatic printing of pattern space
-e script, --expression=script
add the script to the commands to be executed
-f script-file, --file=script-file
add the contents of script-file to the commands to be executed
--help display this help and exit
-V, --version output version information and exit

If no -e, --expression, -f, or --file option is given, then the first
non-option argument is taken as the sed script to interpret. All
remaining arguments are names of input files; if no input files are
specified, then the standard input is read.

E-mail bug reports to: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org .
Be sure to include the word ``sed'' somewhere in the ``Subject:'' field.
Successfully terminated.
root@SERVER:~# cd /opt/share/squeezecenter
root@SERVER:/opt/share/squeezecenter# sed -i.orig -e '/^ .*dbh->STORE.*AutoCommit.*0/s/^/#/' CPAN/DBI.pm
sed: invalid option -- i
Usage: sed [OPTION]... {script-only-if-no-other-script} [input-file]...

-n, --quiet, --silent
suppress automatic printing of pattern space
-e script, --expression=script
add the script to the commands to be executed
-f script-file, --file=script-file
add the contents of script-file to the commands to be executed
--help display this help and exit
-V, --version output version information and exit

If no -e, --expression, -f, or --file option is given, then the first
non-option argument is taken as the sed script to interpret. All
remaining arguments are names of input files; if no input files are
specified, then the standard input is read.

E-mail bug reports to: bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org .
Be sure to include the word ``sed'' somewhere in the ``Subject:'' field.
root@SERVER:/opt/share/squeezecenter#

[TimT]

Rather than using sed, I commented out the offending "AutoCommit" lines in each of the files (scanner.pl etc.) listed in the instructions here -- http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52466.

I then issued the start SC command -- /opt/etc/init.d/S99squeezecenter start -- held my breath ... and got: "Starting SlimServerSlimServer failed to run. Return value: 126."

<Sigh> What now?

TimT

[TimT]

Perhaps perl hasn't been installed? Installed it ("ipkg install perl"). Perl is now installed in /opt/lib/perl/5.8.8. There is also a perl 5.6.1 in /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 but there aren't nearly as many directories and files in the latter folder as in the former.

I then tried to start squeezecenter, which again failed but this time with a return value of 0. I checked the log in the home directory and was told I had to do this:

Please run: /opt/share/squeezecenter/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl DBD::mysql DBI XML::Parser::Expat HTML::Parser JSON::XS Compress::Zlib Digest::SHA1 YAML::Syck GD

Which I did, and was told this:

Can't locate lib.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at /opt/share/squeezecenter/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl line 13.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/share/squeezecenter/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl line 13.

Any thoughts on what to do next?

TimT

[bzhou]

If you install squeezecenter ipkg from the feed, it should have installed all the dependencies as ipk's. So you don't need to run build-perl-modules.pl.

From the error message you gave when running build-perl-modules, it is using /usr/bin/perl (5.6.1) rather than /opt/bin/perl (5.8.8). Buiding of binary extensions won't work unless you have a native compiler.

Maybe you need to set PATH so that /opt/bin is in front of /usr/bin or /bin. The sed error message is also because you were using a less featured sed (/usr/bin/sed or /bin/sed), rather than the optware full featured /opt/bin/sed.

[TimT]

If you install squeezecenter ipkg from the feed, it should have installed all the dependencies as ipk's. So you don't need to run build-perl-modules.pl.

From the error message you gave when running build-perl-modules, it is using /usr/bin/perl (5.6.1) rather than /opt/bin/perl (5.8.8). Buiding of binary extensions won't work unless you have a native compiler.

Maybe you need to set PATH so that /opt/bin is in front of /usr/bin or /bin. The sed error message is also because you were using a less featured sed (/usr/bin/sed or /bin/sed), rather than the optware full featured /opt/bin/sed.

I reinstalled sed and tried to use it to edit the DBI.pm etc. files; but as others reported in the "Installing Squeezebox to Linkstation" thread, sed did not work. So I edited those files manually.

Is this the command for setting the PATH permanently?:

echo 'export PATH=/opt/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc

If I don't need to run build-perl-modules.pl, perhaps I should just rename it so it doesn't try to build when starting squeezecenter? Or is there a squeezecenter startup script that tries to run build-perl-modules.pl in which I can comment-out that line?

Thanks again,

Tim T