jay_cee_in_da_house Wrote: > Yes, Slim does provide a stable tarball release of some form, but its > pretty difficult to get working on an Ubuntu installation (I never got > previous release totally working on Ubuntu). The deb packages they are > providing work great, except that they seem to be generated from the > nightlies (based on how often they get updated) and I'm not real > excited about possibly breaking my slimserver everytime I do an > upgrade. >
What problems were you having installing from the tarball? I found it pretty easy to install on Ubuntu. The main trick was (a) having to build some of the perl modules (i.e., run build-perl-modules.pl), and (b) ignore all the error messages generated about wrong signedness in DBI or something. I also found the wiki and some forum pages useful for coming up with startup scripts. For example, there was one posted just this week. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22518 Other relevant threads from further back are http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18021 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=13607 So if you want to go back to 6.2.1 or 6.2.2, it shouldn't be that hard. And if you've found a 6.5 that works for you, my advice would be to stick with it and don't go near the nightlies if you don't want to be beta testing. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22548 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
