I have been running the Firefly Media Server (mt-daapd) for sometime now. I initially installed the version that is supplied in the Ubuntu universe repository which is currently version 0.9-svn-1586.
Recently I purchased a Pinnacle Soundbridge (Roku Soundbridge outside of the UK) and wanting to be bleeding edge I check out the Firefly Media Server website and discovered that the latest nightly build is version 0.9-svn-1696. According to the descriptions of the various releases this had several bugs fixed, including a major memory leak. The author kindly produced deb packages for most versions of Ubuntu except for Gutsy, so I decided to see if I could compile from source and get the latest up and running. Not being a Linux expert I did some research and did not find a single guide that was 100% correct, so I have hopefully captured all the commands that I used to get this up and running. I hope this is sufficient information for those like me who are unfamiliar with compiling from source.
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Categories: General, Hardware, Software Tags: 7.10, Compiling, Firefly, Gutsy, Media Server, Pinnacle, Roku, Rokulabs, Soundbridge, Source, Ubuntu
Well in a previous post I said that my scanner didn’t work, which was true. However recently I had to use it so I booted into Windows XP and all was well. I decided to see if I could get it to work under Ubuntu 7.10 and low and behold it worked first time….what a mystery?
The bad news is that I went to use it today and it isn’t working again! So this needs further investigation. If anybody can point me in the right direction then please drop me a line!
If you would have asked me about Linux a few years ago I would have claimed that it was miles away from reaching mainstream users and it didn’t include half the features that Microsoft provides with Windows XP. Now these thoughts and comments had no grounding as I had never seen or tried Linux!
Earlier on this year I was toying with the idea of upgrading to Windows Vista, it was for no reason other than the fact that I wanted to have the so called latest and greatest. I was soon put off by the negative press and most of all the unattractive price tag! On discussing this with a friend, he suggested that I tried Linux, and in particular Ubuntu. That was back in March and now I rarely run Windows, and if I do it’s usually under a virtual machine in Linux.
The journey has not been smooth all the way, and in fact I am still having issues with certain pieces of hardware and finding the best software for each task, but I what I intend to do with this blog is share my experience and hopefully encourage those who are skeptical about a move to Linux to simply give it a try. Where possible I will give step by step guides on how I achieved different things so that hopefully other people can benefit from the late nights I have spent trying to get something to work!