On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:16:29PM -0500, Douglas S. Blank wrote:
> > Have pulled out my antique Pioneer and want to use Pyro with it. After
> > some serious fussing, I've determined that sometime in the last n years
> > the hard drive died. I've got a new hard drive, but I'm not sure what to
> > install OS-wise.
> >
> > Can anyone else tell me what you've used Pyro with on a Pioneer? In
> > particular, what version of the OS do you have installed? I'm thinking
> > of trying Fedora, but do I need an ancient version to be compatible
> > with Pyro?
>
> Hmmm... good questions. Unknown answers. It has been years since we turned
> ours on. However, I do know that some people recently have used their
> Pioneers with the latest Pyro (out of SVN; [1] to browse, [2] to download)
> and I believe that it worked fine. (Player has changed much over the
> years, but I think we have a version on the server that works with Pyro).
Hello,
We don't have Pioneers, but we do have Erratics (which are in many ways
similar). We have Ubuntu (10.04) installed on them along with pyro (you
can use alien to make a deb from the rpm on the web) and player from the
Ubuntu repositories (the package name is robot-player). (Note that
alien doesn't get the dependencies so you will have to install a couple
of other packages from the Ubuntu repositories: python-imaging-tk,
python-numeric, and python-numpy.)
The only problems are that the compiled version of player included in
the repository doesn't include many of the modules (like the one for a
firewire camera) and you need to make a symbolic link from player to
robot-player in /usr/bin for pyro to be able to find it.
Nik
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