I'm beginning to think Linux and Squeezebox is some form of cruel joke. I admit I'm new to Linux, although I've been programming on and off for 40 years. Trying to get Squeezebox Server to run on this version of Linux is quite beyond me.
I have tried very helpful and detailed instructions on some of the threads here about re-building it, but they fail after a while for all sorts of reasons that I don't understand, probably because I don't know enough about Linux. The instructions usually end up assuming a degree of knowledge I don't have. Quite often they say run the application and look at the log, and I can't even find the squeezeboxserver application to run it - I found the service (I think) but the mysteries of where everything is have evaded me, not least because there seem to be so many possible places to put stuff and different camps have different theories on how to organise things. In all my very frustrating Windows days I've never had to recompile anything, let alone play with symbolic links to this or that and so on. Yes, I know why Windows frustrates people. However, unless you are a Linux specialist it seems to me that Squeezebox and Linux is out of the question. All I want to do is listen to my music. I thought Linux on an old box which was now too slow for Windows was a good idea. It wasn't. Clearly Logitech aren't interested in users (who aren't all programmers) on Linux. And I thought they liked the Linux Operating System. Am I missing someting really trivial here? -- PasTim Server on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 2 CPU, 2GHz, 4GB, FLAC files. Touch on Ethernet (in another room). Analogue out over 'a bit of wire' to ageing Quad Hi-Fi. An old (wireless) laptop controls the server using Chrome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90827 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
