PasTim;662425 Wrote: > Am I missing someting really trivial here? Probably. About 99% of the time I use Windows on the desktop, but I have always used Ubuntu or debian for running SBS over the past 6 years. I am not familiar with Mint Linux, but for most debian-based distros it is simply a matter of doing one of the following:
1) The automatic way a) use the Update Manager add the debian repo for SBS to your sources.list. You only have to do this once. Then update the packages list. b) use the Update Manager to install/update SBS as necessary Unfortunately, the SBS debian repos have been less than reliable lately, so I have had to resort to the semi-automatic way. 2) The semi-automatic way a) download the .deb package from http://downloads.slimdevices.com/ b) install the deb package (as root) using a single 'dpkg' command in a terminal window Then there is also 3) The manual way When I was running SBS on a debian-based NASs I had to do a complete manual install because of the peculiarities of the NAS hardware (esp PowerPC or ARM CPU). The exact steps varied with SBS version and which NAS I was doing, but in general it required downloading the tarball (tar.gz file), unpacking it, running a script to build certain Perl modules for my hardware platform, maybe editing some of the files, etc. After a couple years of that I got tired of the hassle and now run SBS on an x86-based mini PC running debian, and since then I have always managed with (1) or (2) above. I think your slams at Logitech for not being interested in Linux users are completely wrong. If you just wanted to rant, then fine, I hope you feel better. But if you want solutions, you'll have to provide some more info, such as OS version, hardware info, how you are trying to install SBS, etc. EDIT: When I was running SBS on Ubuntu I did run into some hassles that were because of odd decisions made by the Ubuntu team. The most notable problem was the "apparmor" protection system, but that's under control now. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90827 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
