Rockin said the following on 10/09/2005 03:40:
Since there seems to be no help out in Unix/Linux forum, I am trying
here. Please pardon any harsh comments, but this crap is really
pissing me off as I've tried for a month to get the dang thing working.
My new SB2 is gathering dust because of it. The RPM download for 6.x
(any of them) have never worked for Mandrake. Why can't there be one
created that works for it. I am sure there are plenty of Mandrake
users who have been frustrated by this. Most must be able to figure
the dang thing out, but no one seems to want to help a complete novice
at it. 5.4 worked great and I have no idea why 6.0+ can't. I was able
to run the "./slimserver.pl" script and saw a failure which said run
xxxx. Well that then ran fine, only to have the same message come up
on the next "./slimserver.pl". So I download the src RPM and it does
not say anything about how to get that to work. The damn installation
file only tells you about what the freakin RPM does. Ok, what the hell
are the "exact" steps to accomplish the same thing the RPM does for you.
Do you need to do crap as root? Do you need certain permissions? Does
it expect to be in a certain directory? Many specifics are left out.
Try looking at Gentoo installation files to see how to write one. They
don't leave anything out. I've seen a comment once about Mandrake doing
something different for their PERL, but there was never anything about
how to fix it or work around it.
I don't run Mandrake, but someone else had a problem with Mandriva Linux
(aka Mandrake 10.2) so I installed it on a spare machine and documented
what I had to do to get it to work.
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?MandrivaLinux
R.
PS. I'm sure you're frustrated but try and be more constructive next
time - you're more likely to get help in these forums.
--
http://robinbowes.com
If a man speaks in a forest,
and his wife's not there,
is he still wrong?
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