Hello all, Since I wanted to stream my audio collection accross my home lan I looked for a streaming server to do this. My google ended with Slimserver. However, I am failing to get it up and running under Suse 10.0. Has anybody succeeded here or is there a better alternative I should be aware of?
The slimserver rpm is no good, it installs but the init.d script is broken. After some searching I found an alternative init.d script which was proposed for suse 9.3. I replaced the script and now at least init.d tells me slimserver can be started. However I cant connect to localhost:9000 and no appropriate process seems to be listening on port 9000. So I tried the perl scripts from the tar.gz, tried to run that but got a segmentation fault. Google told me this was a bug and I had to rename DBI.xx to DBI.old. Tried again, no seg fault but still not working. Turned out I was missing two perl packages (DBD-sqlite and IO-zlib), turned out they were not in any of my yast installation sources (which surprised me) but I found them after some googling as well. Now the sqlite error has disappeard but I still get $> ./slimserver.pl --daemon The following modules failed to load: Compress::Zlib To download and compile them, please run: /home/dgorissen/rpms/SlimServer_v6.2.0/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl Turns out that last pl file does not exist.... So I give up.... It always pisses me off that for a given multi platform program there is always a nice and easy point and click installer for windows but (usually) cmdline hell for linux (unless if you're lucky its packaged by your distro). I know its less trivial to write such an installer for linux due to its heterogenity (though solutions like klik and autopkg exist), etc, etc. but why always this assumption that linux users dont mind this messing about and that its part of the linux experience... Anyways dont mean to troll or anything, just sometimes you dont have the time :) Nevertheless go go go Suse and god do I love YaST :) Any help greatly appreciated :) Cheers Dirk -- Dirk Gorissen PhD Student Antwerp University Homepage: www.azungu.be --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
