grahams;478938 Wrote: 
> 
> If so Is there a .deb (don't see one in the nighly SC builds)?
> 
> If not, how can I help?
> 
> Does this community create Linux solutions for Squeeze or Logitech?

Logitech's nightly build process used to create a .deb and tarball, as
suggested by the labels at
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.4 -- but I only tried
the .deb once, and couldn't get it to run. I think Logitech would
appreciate any help you could give them on stabilizing that build
process. SqueezePlay desktop seems a rather low priority right now, and
the Linux builds are lower priority than Windows and MacOS (sad when you
consider that the new generation of Squeezeboxes run Linux).

I'd love to see 
    
- a freely redistributable virtual machine snapshot that would be a
  viable build environment for SqueezePlay and SqueezeOS. Ideally you'd
  fire up the VM in VMWare Server or VirtualBox, log in, and run one
  command to check out the latest SqueezePlay/SqueezeOS source code
  (since that cannot be freely redistributed).
- .deb (and .rpm?) packages that use the .deb and .rpm dependency
  mechanisms to make downloading the needed dev packages automatic with
  apt-get and yum, and install simple scripts (perhaps to be executed in
  the package post-install step!) for checking out the SVN source -- so
  if you already have a Linux install or .iso, you could install one
  simple package to get up & running.
  

There are wiki pages on building SqueezePlay -- start at
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezePlay_Build_Instructions --
but they seem largely abandoned, especially the Linux pages. Again, I
think that's weird, as surely the SqueezeOS developers are using Linux
build environments.


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