Talk:SlimServer server software that powers audio players from SlimDevices

Installing slimserver on LinkStation Live (ARM9) -- that s the one with powerplug at the top, mine is from 2008

i have now freelink with slimserver 6. something / slimcenter did not work due to problems with mysql installation after 3 days of fighting i thought it might be worth for anybody else too. all those thread regarding slimserver (center) on linstation seem quite dead also, so here something new

i have updated firmware to 2.06 (standard) and then to freelink (debian) sideeffect: nas navigator does not find my box anymore AND web-interface is not working too

I've followed mainly the description on fieldnetworks first problem: i could ping, but not telnet, acp_commander failed all the time but SSH was working, so i am now using that one.

then continued to install slimserver 6. something (the one without mysql) but i failed due to the missing packages and all the links to the already builded packages like the linkstation wiki were dead, then i've tried slimcenter7.3 but mysql was crashing so back to slimserver installation

there i got stuck with 'can not execute perl' or something, there are several thread on this issue, mainly talking bout access right after checking rights over and over with chmod i came to conclusion that: i believe that it failed cause the tar.gz package from fieldnetworks was build for PPC NOT for ARM9 which my linkstation is

so i took perl from cpan and build it locally (i think it was: ./configure, make, make install to build it) after that i could at least run perl !

then i've continued on page 4 with slimserver and ended with the missing packages again ok running the pl file failed so i have opened the buld-pearl-modules.pl with vi and found this list (which was not complete..)

you can download that all from http://svn.slimdevices.com/vendor/src/

Compress-Zlib-1.33.tar.gz [ok] DBI-1.46.tar.gz (g       DBD-SQLite-1.08.tar.gz (g -- additional HTML-Tagset HTML-Parser-3.45.tar.gz (g       cp /mnt/disk1/share/Template-Toolkit-2.13.tar.gz        Time-HiRes-1.66.tar.gz -- expat (run first ./configure then After running the configure script, the "make" command will build things and "make install" will install things into their proper -- XML-Parser-2.34.tar.gz

as you can see HTML-Tagset and expat were addionally needed, just google for them

after downloading them under windows into share of my linkstation, i have copied them using ssh/telnet to root then extracted them using tar xzvf .. went into the new directory and run perl Makefile.pl then make then make test and finally make install only expat is different where you have to run ./configure and then make, make install

add info 1) i could not access link with telnet and acp_commander failed, but i am using no ssh 2) my share was not /mnt/share but /mnt/disk1/share

i am quite experienced with windows, but linux hmm so here is what you need if you have no clue bout linux:

use cd .. to change to parent dir use cd /    to change to root dir use cd /mnt/.. to change to a dir using absolute path use cd local to chan into a sub folder use ls      to list content of folder use cp filepath folderpath to copy a file from to use tar xzvf for unzip use chmod   to check rights and set rights use ps -A   to get the list of running processes

reading files: i was using vi, so vi filename take care, if you misspell filename it just opens an new file, you can see it at the bottom line :q! will close the file without changes wq with saving to enter edit mode press 'i' and then it's mainly make, make ;-) oh yes my linkstation default ip when not on net was .151 not 150 (found that out with rangeping)