PasTim;662425 Wrote: > 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?
I'm a linux noob myself, but I can't help thinking that you must be missing something. From what I gather, installing a SBServer on a linux system using one of the precompiled versions here should be a short command line or two. I have a vortexbox system (which is Fedora linux) and it is plug and play. I've even removed and reinstalled SbB 7.6.2 recently. The various linux flavors are always listed under the windows and OS versions. No compiling required: http://downloads.slimdevices.com/ Give some serious thoughts about vortexbox. You'll go to this site. Download the ISO. Create a disk from it. Stick the disk in your old computer's harddrive. Reboot, follow a couple of instructions, and you'll shortly have an uptodate fedora linux system with the most recent SbS. And a webGUI for doing updates, etc. All requiring zero linux knowledge. http://vortexbox.org/downloads/ -- garym System 1: Vortexbox Appliance (1.10) > SbS 7.6.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) System 2: Win7(64) laptop > SbS 7.6.2 > Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio and laptop) Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controlled at both locations with: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.6 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90827 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
