Logitech Media Server (LMS) on Amahi 10 / F25

[jaybea]

I note from the app store that LMS is currently shown as Alpha for Fedora 25. It appears, from the Squeezebox forums, that LMS will run under F25, but is there a problem with the app under Amahi? As LMS is a key application on my HDA, I don't want to upgrade to Amahi 10 and F25 if I can't get LMS working. I am happy doing a manual installation from source, if required, but I am also happy to test the Amahi packaged version - I have had to do a few manual fixes in the past to get LMS working!

[bigfoot65]

It appears, from the Squeezebox forums, that LMS will run under F25, but is there a problem with the app under Amahi?

Yes. The app is not working as of the last time I tested it. Have not had a chance to get back to it.

If you would like to test it and help get it working, we would greatly appreciate it.

[jaybea]

I have finally got round to upgrading to Amahi 10. The upgrade from Amahi 9 / F24 went fine, apart from Logitech Media Server. I could not get the Amahi packaged version to install at all, but I have got a standalone version to work and this is now running, although without Amahi integration.

• I removed the currently installed versions from my HDA.

• LMS is not packaged for Fedora 25, so I downloaded and installed the latest RPM from [url="http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.9]LMS Nighties[/url] (logitechmediaserver-7.9.1-0.1.1501791870.noarch.rpm)

• Running resulted in an failure. "Can't locate Slim/bootstrap.pm in @INC". This I solved by linking some Perl directories after Googling for the error

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ln -s /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/Slim /usr/lib64/perl5/Slim

• I then got some permission errors in /var/log/squeezebox server. All these should be rw by user squeezeboxserver.

Running from the command line with /usr/libexec/squeezeboxserver --d_startup is helpful for debugging, but Squeezebox server won't run as root, and running as a regular user results in permission errors, so you need to run the command as the squeezeboxserver user.

Once this was done, LMS ran without problems, and it is currently re-indexing my music files. [It took 12 minutes to re-index 9,000 tracks]

Hopefully this will help in getting the packaged version working for Amahi.

[bigfoot65]

Hopefully this will help in getting the packaged version working for Amahi.

There is one piece missing that keeps it from working on #Amahi.

Need to install a CPAN module, which in your case probably was present since you did an upgrade vs new install of #Amahi. See the Squeezebox Server Upgrade guidance in the wiki.

Trying to add that to the app install script, but it's not so simple unfortunately.

[jaybea]

Need to install a CPAN module, which in your case probably was present since you did an upgrade vs new install of #Amahi. See the Squeezebox Server Upgrade guidance in the wiki.

Trying to add that to the app install script, but it's not so simple unfortunately.

Yes, I remember having to install CPAN a few upgrades ago. I don't remember the manual CPAN step being particularly difficult, but it does't sit well with Amahi's one-click installs, and requires the command line.

This Server Fault thread is interesting, and suggests using CPANM for automating installs, but I don't know if that would work in the context of LMS.

[bigfoot65]

Unfortunately installing CPAN brings in a bunch of other packages.

Not sure if this will remain a true one-click app. It may require some manual steps to get the CPAN module installed.

Still testing, so anything is possible.