HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Debian jessie - bookworm Install Logitech Media Server, LMS [color=#0033FF]bodhi's 10 Dec 2024 note: [url=https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138644#msg-138644]See here [/url] for Installation on Debian bookworm.[/color] LMS 7.9 has not been officially released yet. But someone has compiled a version of it for armel processors. The file is found here: [url=https://server.vijge.net/static/squeezebox/arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi-64int.tar.gz]Link to compiled armel version of LMS 7.9.0[/url] But there are no detailed instructions on how to use it. The only direction is: “extract to /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.20/" If you go to your Terminal now and cd to: /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.20 you will get: -bash: cd: /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.20: No such file or directory First we install LMS 7.9.0, even though we know it would not work because the link to the nightly below here is not compiled for armel. The idea is to give us the directory structure we need to extract the compiled version into. And this is a crucial bit of information not provided in the link above. PLEASE NOTE: The download link below here might now work. As LeggoMyEggo pointed out below, the link changes often. It's the nightly build. The best way to resolve this problem is go here: [url=http://downloads-origin.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.9]Nightly build link to LMS[/url] Then right click on "Logitech Media Server: Debian Installer Package (i386, x86_64, ARM EABI, PowerPC)" then if you're using Firefox, do "Copy Link Location," paste the result in a text document, and then add "wget" in front of that result and that will be your download link. I believe that will give you the latest build link. Use that instead of the one below here, which you should now use as a reference to compare with your results. [code] wget http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/7.9/sc/858e1e0/logitechmediaserver_7.9.0~1466175427_all.deb dpkg -i logitechmediaserver_7.9.0~1465358341_all.deb [/code] You are mostly likely to get a dependency error. Follow through with the directions and do: [code] apt-get -f install [/code] Perl will be happy and your version of it might be: 5.20.2-3+deb8u5 And now the needed directory we need is created, you can check using, again: cd: /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.20 Stop server: [code] service logitechmediaserver stop [/code] And you can tell your current install won't work by issuing: service logitechmediaserver start You are likely to get: "Making sure that Logitech Media Server is not running first: start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 10653: No such process No process in pidfile '/var/run/logitechmediaserver.pid' found running; none killed. Starting Logitech Media Server." Despite that last line, if you cd to /var/log/squeezeboxserver and then: nano: server.log, you will find plenty of this line: 2016-06-18 22:42:32 Logitech Media Server died. Restarting. 2016-06-18 22:42:37 Logitech Media Server died. Restarting. 2016-06-18 22:42:42 Logitech Media Server died. Restarting. 2016-06-18 22:42:47 Logitech Media Server died. Restarting. 2016-06-18 22:42:52 Logitech Media Server died. Restarting. To fix this, go to the Terminal The first thing we do here is add a normal user to the system. So far, after the install of Jessie with bohdi's rootfs ‘Debian-4.4.0-kirkwood-tld-1-rootfs-bodhi.tar.bz2”, “root” is the only user. And root is not a normal user, it's a super-user: the maker and destroyer of all things Linux. [code] adduser (YOUR CHOSEN USER NAME) [/code] Follow the prompts and accept defaults, or play around with more additions from here: [url=https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-users.html]Add user to Debian[/url] Then: cd /tmp, this is where you will download the compiled version of LMS 7.9 for Jessie on armel [code] wget http://server.vijge.net/static/squeezebox/arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi-64int.tar.gz [/code] Then you extract it to the directory we needed and created earlier. This one: /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.20 [code] tar -xf arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi-64int.tar.gz -C /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.20 [/code] And finally, reboot the box: [code] reboot -n [/code] If you're lucky as I was, LMS 7.9 is now working. And you can test by entering the IP address of your box: X.X.X.X:9000 in your browser. And there you will see the web-interface you will use to configure the server. I've done what's described here and it works for me. I was able to listen to music from a USB stick. During configuration, if you external drive is mounted to media, you will find it there, along with your tunes, videos, pictures, etc. You don't need to monkey around with fstab for the server. But you should ensure your USB sticks or hard drive are mounting, or have mounted. As regards this, I've chosen to use fstab for now, as USBmount is no longer supported. I got irritated with pmount, which is another alternative being maintained. Before I go, thanks to bohdi, Gravelash and others who pushed me down the river on this one. I learned a few things along the way. And no damage was done. Now I have two USB sticks with installed and configured packages. If one fails, I simply plug the other and change directory settings, etc. Plenty more to learn, so off I go..... ==== bodhi's edit: update thread subject to reflect it is now Debian bookworm. https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28737#msg-28737 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:27:05 -0500 Phorum 5.2.23 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138657#msg-138657 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138657#msg-138657
> Build instruction on armel bookworm

Thanks!

Up in the Wiki thread

Quote

Media Streaming

Install Logitech Media Server on Debian wheezy
Install Logitech Media Server on Debian jessie
Install Logitech Media Server with nightly build (WIP)
Install Logitech Media Server on Debian bookworm
Build Logitech Media Server on Debian bookworm
]]> bodhi Debian Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:07:23 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138655#msg-138655 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138655#msg-138655 
# apt install -y build-essential nasm zlib1g-dev libgd-dev libmodule-install-perl


$ git clone https://github.com/LMS-Community/slimserver-vendor.git
$ cd slimserver-vendor
$ git checkout -b public/8.4 remotes/origin/public/8.4                    # or 9.1 for LMS 9
$ cd CPAN
$ PATH=/sbin:$PATH ./buildme.sh 2>&1 | tee build.log

The build took about 5+ hours on an iConnect, and took about 3 hours on a M300 so better let it run in a detached session.
The build result are files under build/arch/5.36/arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi-64int.

Cheers!]]> eno789 Debian Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:09:04 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138654#msg-138654 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138654#msg-138654 -------------------------------------------------------
> eno789,
>
> Thanks! up in the
> Wiki
> thread.
>

Thank you @bodhi!
I've been using your rootfs/kernel/u-boot for many years. Only registered recently.]]> eno789 Debian Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:54:23 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138649#msg-138649 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138649#msg-138649 mikeh49 Debian Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:07:49 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138645#msg-138645 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138645#msg-138645
Thanks! up in the Wiki thread.

Quote

Media Streaming

OpenMediaVault
Debian Stretch and OMV4
Streaming music from Kirkwood plugs to IOS devices via WiFi
Create Your Own In-Home Radio Station Using a Pogoplug Mobile
Install Logitech Media Server on Debian wheezy
Install Logitech Media Server on Debian jessie
Install Logitech Media Server with nightly build (WIP)
Install Logitech Media Server on Debian bookworm
Plex media server on PogoPlug
Airplay on a Pogoplug
Add USB sound card
Gerbera Media Server
Marantz receiver Airplay with power and volume control
]]> bodhi Debian Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:01:38 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138644#msg-138644 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138644#msg-138644
1. Download LMS from https://lyrion.org/downloads/ for LMS 9, or https://lyrion.org/downloads/archive/ for LMS 8. Pick a version, then download the logitechmediaserver_8.5.2_arm.deb or lyrionmusicserver_9.0.0_arm.deb.

2. Download the perl CPAN modules
LMS8-perl5.36-CPAN-armel.tar.gz
or
LMS9-perl5.36-CPAN-armel.tar.gz

3. As root 
# mkdir -p /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.36
# cd /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.36

# tar xvzf /path/to/LMS8-perl5.36-CPAN-armel.tar.gz
# apt install /path/to/logitechmediaserver_8.5.2_arm.deb
# /usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver --help
# systemctl start logitechmediaserver

or

# tar xvzf /path/to/LMS9-perl5.36-CPAN-armel.tar.gz
# apt install /path/to/lyrionmusicserver_9.0.0_arm.deb
# /usr/sbin/squeezeboxserver --help
# systemctl start lyrionmusicserver

4. navigate to http://hostname:9000]]> eno789 Debian Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:26:48 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138641#msg-138641 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138641#msg-138641
> I'm running LMS 8 on a Dell Kace M300 with an old
> 128GB SSD plugged into the SATA connector on the
> Dell MB and zip tied in place. The SSD is
> partitioned 4GB ext3 for OS and remainder for
> music. I've upgraded from 7.x to 8.x with no Perl
> module issues.

Have you upgraded to bookworm?]]> bodhi Debian Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:53:34 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138639#msg-138639 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138639#msg-138639 mikeh49 Debian Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:18:30 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138633#msg-138633 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138633#msg-138633
So I just started a build for LMS 8.

I'll document the build and installation step in the next couple of days.]]> eno789 Debian Mon, 09 Dec 2024 21:12:48 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138632#msg-138632 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138632#msg-138632
> We can now change the title of thread to include
> bookworm.

Could you put the info in to one post (so I can add it to the Wiki). Don't need to be elaborate, just the combination of what you did in your mutilple posts.

Thanks!]]> bodhi Debian Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:16:34 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138631#msg-138631 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138631#msg-138631 https://github.com/LMS-Community/slimserver-vendor/tree/public/9.1/CPAN.

I used a meagre iConnect (spec. https://openwrt.org/toh/iomega/iconnect) and it took close to 6 hours to finish, LOL.

Having tried LMS 9.0.0 on a raspi 3B, I might try LMS 8.5 on a Kace M300 I just got, as that might require fewer resources.

Glad my build can help other people, based on what I read, armel won't be supported in the official release, so we need to help each other.]]> eno789 Debian Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:15:22 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138626#msg-138626 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138626#msg-138626 buildme.sh script on the github? What machine did you use. I tried to build a few years ago and could not get the script to work on a kirkwood box. A LMS forum member sent me his 5.28 modules for Buster. Again, thanks.]]> mikeh49 Debian Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:03:39 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138624#msg-138624 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138624#msg-138624
I uploaded the compiled files LMS-perl5.36-CPAN-armel.tar.gz at dropbox

After installing the deb, just do 

cd /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.36/
tar -xzvf /path/to/LMS-perl5.36-CPAN-armel.tar.gz

We can now change the title of thread to include bookworm.]]> eno789 Debian Sun, 08 Dec 2024 23:23:08 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138622#msg-138622 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138622#msg-138622 hf-thread-multi-64int

So I'm following the instruction at https://github.com/LMS-Community/slimserver-vendor/tree/public/9.1/CPAN to compile the CPAN modules.
The build is still going, once finishes I think I can bring LMS up on bookworm.

See also https://github.com/LMS-Community/slimserver/issues/269]]> eno789 Debian Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:18:27 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138621#msg-138621 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138621#msg-138621 
The following modules failed to load: DBI EV XML::Parser::Expat HTML::Parser JSON::XS Digest::SHA1 YAML::XS Sub::Name


This is perl 5, version 36, subversion 0 (v5.36.0) built for arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi-64int
(with 53 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
...
]]> eno789 Debian Sun, 08 Dec 2024 16:09:35 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138619#msg-138619 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,138619#msg-138619
Turns out the latest release of arm deb includes support for armel & various versions of perl (including perl 5.36 of bookworm). So the installation can be greatly simplified.

All you need to do is goto https://lyrion.org/downloads/ 

wget https://downloads.lms-community.org/LyrionMusicServer_v9.0.0/lyrionmusicserver_9.0.0_arm.deb
sudo apt install lyrionmusicserver_9.0.0_arm.deb
]]> eno789 Debian Sun, 08 Dec 2024 15:31:02 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,89999#msg-89999 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,89999#msg-89999
I then downloaded and installed the LMS 7.9.2 nightly, got the dependency problems, and eventually resolved them by running apt-get update. Key point, is update the package lists before doing anything like this. The install then ran, accepted my existing directory structure and the 5.20 directory now included directories for other architectures as well as our armel version.

All of this was done as root, so I think root is the owner. I created another user, didn't do anything else, rebooted and LMS was running. I'm listening to internet radio while typing this.

After this, I think that all that is needed to run on different Debian versions on armel is to compile the perl modules for the version of perl on the machine. Stretch is perl 5.24 and Buster is 5.28. There are 5.24 and 5.28 modules for architectures other than armel in LMS for this nightly. There are methods on forums.slimdevices.com about building your own stand-alone version of perl and then configuring LMS to use yours rather than its. Too complicated for me at the moment. Also, the LMS_vendor git has a script to build the perl modules but apparently it needs some tweaks and I don't fully understand them.

So, at the moment it is pretty straightforward to get LMS running on Jessie.]]> mikeh49 Debian Sun, 15 Sep 2019 12:44:49 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,79589#msg-79589 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,79589#msg-79589 eraguate Debian Sun, 03 Mar 2019 09:29:46 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,69494#msg-69494 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,69494#msg-69494 Gravelrash Debian Mon, 08 Oct 2018 03:59:01 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,67494#msg-67494 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,67494#msg-67494
Thanks in advance

VL]]> Victor Lopez Debian Mon, 10 Sep 2018 17:02:50 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,48159#msg-48159 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,48159#msg-48159
It's an 41M file but because of the file size I unfortunately can't attach it here for sharing. I do not use any cloud services for uploading files but I am for sure willing to share my created deb package of the LMS.]]> lille Debian Fri, 19 Jan 2018 11:19:10 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,48044#msg-48044 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,48044#msg-48044
Quote
Michael
> root@lms:~# perl -v
>
> This is perl 5, version 24, subversion 1 (v5.24.1) built for
> arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi-64int

Unfortunately we don't have support for this platform yet. You'll have
to try to build yourself.

--

Michael

the pre-compiled binaries in the debian packages for arm won't work on armel.]]> lille Debian Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:25:09 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,47724#msg-47724 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,47724#msg-47724
I have downloaded an deb package for arm from here

http://downloads.slimdevices.com/LogitechMediaServer_v7.9.0/

but the binaries aren't working correctly.]]> lille Debian Fri, 12 Jan 2018 07:08:41 -0600 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,30403#msg-30403 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,30403#msg-30403 rado Debian Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:56:14 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28774#msg-28774 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28774#msg-28774 -------------------------------------------------------
> FYI, I also enabled squeezelite on the same device
> running logitechmediaserver and both services
> running together seem to behave fine. I'll tuck
> the Guruplug it's running on someplace out of the
> way and control it's play either from the desktop
> or from Squeezer on my Android phone. Cool.

LeggoMyEggo:
I've seen mentions of squeezelite, but was so focused on LMS, I did not pay much attention. What do you use it for, please? What are its features, was installation a simple apt-get install squeezelite?

Gravelrash:
Thanks for the compliments. Simply pleased to give back.]]> notoneofmyseeds Debian Fri, 24 Jun 2016 11:15:58 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28750#msg-28750 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28750#msg-28750 LeggoMyEggo Debian Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:34:06 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28745#msg-28745 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28745#msg-28745
*****************************
*** WELL DONE ALL ***
*****************************

as my packaged .deb is not needed I will remove it from dropbox - thought i had better say that in case someone goes looking for it :)]]> Gravelrash Debian Thu, 23 Jun 2016 04:49:40 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28744#msg-28744 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28744#msg-28744 -------------------------------------------------------
> > It works and that is what is important. Good
> job
> > :)
>
> Yes, indeed. Thanks notoneofmyseeds :)

bohdi and LeggoMyEggo; thanks for your compliments.

bohdi; you have been such great help, as well as others, it was the least I could do.

I have made the changes LeggoMyEggo pointed out. Both were errors I should have noticed.

All should be good now.]]> notoneofmyseeds Debian Thu, 23 Jun 2016 02:42:05 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28743#msg-28743 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28743#msg-28743 > :)

Yes, indeed. Thanks notoneofmyseeds :)]]> bodhi Debian Wed, 22 Jun 2016 22:26:58 -0500 https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28742#msg-28742 Re: HowTo Install Logitech Media Server on armel and Jessie https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,28737,28742#msg-28742 http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/7.9/sc/f67047a/logitechmediaserver_7.9.0~1466571941_all.deb';. That link can change daily so go here to get the latest file package link url. Also I needed to omit the first '/' (which I have bolded) in the command 'tar -xf arm-linux-gnueabi-thread-multi-64int.tar.gz -C '/' /usr/share/squeezeboxserver/CPAN/arch/5.20' .

It works and that is what is important. Good job :)]]> LeggoMyEggo Debian Wed, 22 Jun 2016 20:21:28 -0500