Getting SqeezeServer to work on Ubuntu
Wednesday 4. November 2009 · Posted by Ole Reidar Johansen
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Since I am using mysql v5.1 I got the following error when trying to install the deb package I downloaded from http://www.mysqueezebox.com/.
sudo dpkg -i squeezeboxserver_7.4.1_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package squeezeboxserver.
(Reading database ... 154792 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking squeezeboxserver (from squeezeboxserver_7.4.1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of squeezeboxserver:
squeezeboxserver depends on mysql-server-4.1 | mysql-server-5.0; however:
Package mysql-server-4.1 is not installed.
Package mysql-server-5.0 is not installed.
squeezeboxserver depends on libmysqlclient14-dev | libmysqlclient15-dev; however:
Package libmysqlclient14-dev is not installed.
Package libmysqlclient15-dev is not installed.
dpkg: error processing squeezeboxserver (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for sreadahead ...
sreadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Errors were encountered while processing:
squeezeboxserver
So I issued this command:
sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=mysql-server-4.1,mysql-server-5.0,libmysqlclient14-dev,libmysqlclient15-dev -i squeezeboxserver_7.4.1_all.deb
(Reading database ... 158195 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace squeezeboxserver 7.4.1 (using squeezeboxserver_7.4.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement squeezeboxserver ...
Setting up squeezeboxserver (7.4.1) ...
Adding system user `squeezeboxserver' (UID 119) ...
Adding new user `squeezeboxserver' (UID 119) with group `nogroup' ...
Not creating home directory `/usr/share/squeezeboxserver'.
* Reloading AppArmor profiles
Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox-3.5
...done.
Making sure that Squeezebox Server is not running first: No squeezeboxserve found running; none killed.
Starting Squeezebox Server.
Processing triggers for sreadahead ...
Now everything seems to work as it should :)
Update 2009-12-09
It worked, but the update manager didn't want to upgrade my system since there were unresolved stuff... whatevah! Added 'deb http://debian.slimdevices.com testing main' to Software Sources and now things are good again. Well, update manager keeps warning me that there are unauthenticated packages but I can live with that.