{"id":1929,"date":"2009-10-29T20:33:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T19:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1929-ubuntu-karmic-koala-breaks-squeezeboxserver.html"},"modified":"2009-10-29T20:33:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T19:33:06","slug":"ubuntu-karmic-koala-breaks-squeezeboxserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1929-ubuntu-karmic-koala-breaks-squeezeboxserver.html","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Karmic Koala breaks Squeezeboxserver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an Ubuntu server performing various important duties including serving music for Squeezebox. It was humming along with version 9.04 of Ubuntu and the latest Logitech Squeezeboxserver; but a new version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/\">Ubuntu<\/a>, 9.10 or Karmic Koala, was released today and I hastened to install it.<\/p>\n<p>All went well \u2013 aside from a problem with Grub 2 which is related to my slightly unusual setup \u2013 except that Squeezebox Server failed after the upgrade completed. When I tried to use aptitude to correct the problem, I saw an error message:<\/p>\n<p>The following packages have unmet dependencies.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>squeezeboxserver: Depends: mysql-server-4.1 but it is not installable or<\/p>\n<p>mysql-server-5.0 but it is not going to be installed<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/squeeze-prob.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frustrating, particularly as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/unix@lists.slimdevices.com\/msg15576.html\">this thread<\/a> indicates that squeezebox server runs fine with MySQL 5.1, which is installed.<\/p>\n<p>I messed around trying to get apt-get to force the install but it would not play. I therefore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysqueezebox.com\/download\">downloaded the .deb directly<\/a> and ran the following command:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>dpkg \u2013i \u2013-force-all squeezeboxserver_7.4.1_all.deb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This tells dpkg to install the package come what may. It did so; and everything works fine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Andy Grundman tells me that the problem is fixed in Squeezebox Server 7.4.2, currently <a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.slimdevices.com\/nightly\/?ver=7.4\">in beta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:c841b2fa-cc40-4966-8d53-999b46233af8\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/linux\" rel=\"tag\">linux<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ubuntu\" rel=\"tag\">ubuntu<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/squeezebox\" rel=\"tag\">squeezebox<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/karmic+koala\" rel=\"tag\">karmic koala<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an Ubuntu server performing various important duties including serving music for Squeezebox. It was humming along with version 9.04 of Ubuntu and the latest Logitech Squeezeboxserver; but a new version of Ubuntu, 9.10 or Karmic Koala, was released today and I hastened to install it. All went well \u2013 aside from a problem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1929-ubuntu-karmic-koala-breaks-squeezeboxserver.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ubuntu Karmic Koala breaks Squeezeboxserver<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,53,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-logitech","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}