The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible

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minute: Jul 31, 2003

So, I'm relatively new to linux. I decided to install Xubuntu because it seemed light and user-friendly. With the help of various internet guides and such, I've been slowly getting everything to work.

Except MPD. At first, I was following: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=320469&highlight=mpd . When I executed "./autogen.sh", I got the following:

code:

########### MPD CONFIGURATION ############

 Playback Support:
 libao support .................disabled
 OSS support ...................enabled
 ALSA support ..................disabled
 JACK support ..................disabled
 OS X support ..................disabled
 PulseAudio support ............disabled
 Media MVP support .............disabled
 Shout streaming support .......disabled

 File Format Support:
 ID3 tag support ...............disabled
 mp3 support ...................disabled
 Ogg Vorbis support ............disabled
 FLAC support ..................disabled
 OggFLAC support ...............disabled
 Wave file support .............disabled
 MP4/AAC support ...............disabled
 Musepack (MPC) support ........disabled
 MOD support ...................disabled
configure: error: No input plugins supported!

I didn't really pay much attention to these error messages, and kept following the guide. Make and make install both seemed to work. I followed the rest of the guide for MPD up until it told me to run MPD. I executed "sudo mpd" and got the following:

code:

unable to bind port 6600: Address already in use
maybe MPD is still running?

I looked around, and in the process of finding the solution, I ran into http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Install#Ubuntu_Install_Procedure and tried doing that. It did not fix the problem. However, "sudo killall mpd" did. But when I tried to run mpd again, it alternately gave me

code:

cannot setgid for user "mpd" at line 188: Operation not permitted

if I didn't run as superuser, or if I executed "sudo mpd" it gave me

code:

No audio_output specified and unable to detect a default audio output device

I tried playing around with the mpd.conf, uncommenting the secion on alsa drivers, etc. but it did nothing except show me a wide variety of error messages. Finally I went into Synaptic, removed mpd, and tried following http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=31763&highlight=mpd . But, when I typed "sudo dpkg-reconfigure mpd" into console, it just paused briefly, before returning me to the command prompt. I'd very much like to get this up and working, but as it is, I have no idea what to do.

I'm running Xubuntu 6.10, I have a Creative Audigy 2 ZS Notebook soundcard with alsa drivers installed, which as far as I can tell are working. I have gxine and rhythmbox currently installed, and both work after I followed https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu to install the codecs.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2007 06:13

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 00:33

minute: Jul 31, 2003

Well, I finally got MPD installed. I want to create a launcher for sonata on my panel, but I can't find the icon for sonata. Is there a way to find icons for various programs?

# ¿ Apr 18, 2007 06:40

minute: Jul 31, 2003

sund posted:

/usr/share/pixmaps on gentoo.

or...

Awesome, thanks.

A couple more quick questions. Right now, I have WinXP installed on partition, Xubuntu on a partition and a shared FAT32 partition. I have all my music on the FAT partition. I tried adding a symbolic link to my music folder in /var/lib/mpd/music. It seems to work, I can cd into it, etc. But when I try to run sudo mpd --create-db, it won't add anything to the database. I think it has something to do with the permissions. Right now, the permissions for that partition are: drwxrwx---. I tried doing sudo chmod a+rwx, and that didn't do anything. I tried actually changing into the superuser and running chmod and still didn't do anything. Also, all the files in that partition are listed in green in terminal. I have an external harddisk also formatted as FAT32 which seems to work fine. The permissions for that are: drwxr-xr-x. I can add a symbolic link to my music directory on there and mpd adds it to the database with no problem.

Another thing, can MPD play CDs? Do I just make a symbolic link to /media/cdrom in /var/lib/mpd/music? And, can MPD access freedb?

minute fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Apr 23, 2007

# ¿ Apr 23, 2007 00:00

minute: Jul 31, 2003

I'm running utorrent through wine, and everything seems to work okay, except for some torrents where I can't connect to the tracker. How can I fix this? Or, I wouldn't mind switching over to a linux client, so is there one that's as light on resources as utorrent with all/most of the features?

Unrelated question, what's a good program to for podcasts?

minute fucked around with this message at 08:15 on May 5, 2007

# ¿ May 5, 2007 02:51

minute: Jul 31, 2003

thenameseli posted:

It is exceptionally unlikely that this has anything to do with Linux; it is probably just an issue with that particular tracker. Can you connect to it with the same network setup+uTorrent in Windows?

I highly recommend deluge, although I have never used uTorrent. Azureus' features can be nice at times, but it has some serious issues with resource consumption and runaway java threads.

Yes, I tried the torrents in windows with uTorrent, and they seem to work fine. I was thinking about deluge, but it looks like there's no easy way to uninstall it in case I don't like it, other than manually removing all the files, so I'm kind of wary of installing it.

# ¿ May 5, 2007 08:16

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# ¿ May 2, 2024 00:33

minute: Jul 31, 2003

teapot posted:

There are packages on their site for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo and Arch, so uninstalling packages will work the same way as anything else.

Oh, you're right. I guess I was looking at and older version that had to be built with a python script.

# ¿ May 5, 2007 11:40

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