Getting Another Editor to Work on an NSLU2 with mt-daapd

[Sherlock]

I know this is not a topic that really belongs here, but since I saw other people reporting problems getting the ‘nano’ editor working with mt-daapd and I have not been able to get the ‘joe’ editor to work, is there a specific problem running either of these editors with mt-daapd? I don’t know enough about Linux to know how to troubleshoot the problem. The ‘vi’ editor works and has allowed me to make the changes I had to make, but it sure is not what I would call ‘user friendly’.

[rpedde]

@Sherlock wrote:

I know this is not a topic that really belongs here, but since I saw other people reporting problems getting the ‘nano’ editor working with mt-daapd and I have not been able to get the ‘joe’ editor to work, is there a specific problem running either of these editors with mt-daapd? I don’t know enough about Linux to know how to troubleshoot the problem. The ‘vi’ editor works and has allowed me to make the changes I had to make, but it sure is not what I would call ‘user friendly’.

It’s apparently related to the newer firmware. I’m running old firmware and the packages work fine. It sounds like the directories have moved around.

[fizze]

well Im using Unslung 6.8 and joe works like a charm, just with

ipkg install joe

weirdish.

[Sherlock]

@fizze wrote:

well Im using Unslung 6.8 and joe works like a charm, just with

ipkg install joe

weirdish.

What is your NSLU2 configuration as to USB devices? I am unslung on a single USB drive in Drive2. I am wondering if it is related to my configuration. I did the ‘ipkg install joe’ and it said everything installed OK. I did not find any other install instructions related to ‘joe’. Was there anything else that had to be done after the ‘ipkg install joe’?

[fizze]

no. I have unslung to a USB flash drive on port 2, and I have a NTFS drive mounted on port 1.

no, not really. what happens if you type

joe

?

are you sure you are familiar with joe ? 😉

[Sherlock]

@fizze wrote:

what happens if you type

joe

?

are you sure you are familiar with joe ? 😉

I am the first to state I am not a Linux person and I am not familiar with any of the things I have gotten myself into here. I am learning and my ‘Linux for Dummies’ and several other Linux books are helping.

When I just enter ‘joe’, I get back ‘joe: No such file or directory’. I browsed around the NSLU2 last night and found what appears to be the executable for ‘joe’ in /opt/bin. A ‘ls -l’ shows ‘280836 May 23 08:32 joe’. I get the same message if I change to the /opt/bin directory and type in ‘joe’.

[fizze]

easy, lad 🙂

so, what system did you install on your NSLU2 ? I assume uNSLUng ? or openslug ? there’s just so many flavours of *IX for the slug….

well, if you would state the whole line of the ‘ls -l’ output, this would be helpful.
I can see the binary is there, but maybe it hasnt set the right privileges, so noone may execute it.

Have you tried to apply following:

chmod +x joe

This allows the “joe” file to be executed.

[Sherlock]

@fizze wrote:

easy, lad 🙂

so, what system did you install on your NSLU2 ? I assume uNSLUng ? or openslug ? there’s just so many flavours of *IX for the slug…..

Thanks for attempting to help me, fizze. I am uNSLUng on the latest 6.8 level. I will paste in everything from the telnet session which shows the level of code and everything I did from your suggestions.

Welcome to Unslung V2.3R63-uNSLUng-6.8-beta



NOTE: THIS SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY UNSLUNG





BusyBox v0.60.4 (2005.03.22-06:52+0000) Built-in shell (ash)

Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.



# chmod +x joe

chmod: joe: No such file or directory

# cd /opt/bin

# ls

captoinfo       clear           infocmp         infotocap       jmacs

joe             jpico           jstar           reset           rjoe

termidx         tic             toe             tput            tset

# chmod +x joe

# joe

joe: No such file or directory

# ls -l

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 May 26 19:06 captoinfo -> tic

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3268 May 23 09:19 clear

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        44744 May 23 09:19 infocmp

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 May 26 19:06 infotocap -> tic

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 May 26 19:06 jmacs -> joe

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       280836 May 23 08:32 joe

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 May 26 19:06 jpico -> joe

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 May 26 19:06 jstar -> joe

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 May 26 19:06 reset -> tset

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 May 26 19:06 rjoe -> joe

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         4076 May 23 08:32 termidx

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        44048 May 23 09:19 tic

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        30620 May 23 09:19 toe

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         8884 May 23 09:19 tput

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        35216 May 23 09:19 tset

[fizze]

wow, this seems weird.
I’ll compare this to my slug once Im home.

As usual, I could only link you to nslu2-linux.org and the likes…
tried to install nano or jove, btw ?

[Sherlock]

@fizze wrote:

As usual, I could only link you to nslu2-linux.org and the likes…tried to install nano or jove, btw ?

I spent some time last night going through the sites looking for information on several fronts, including editors. I have a second NSLU2 and want to uNSLUng it, but I need to learn more about other options such as using a USB Flash Drive, etc. I am very happy with our mt-daapd setup and don’t want to do anything to risk that at the moment. My wife would never forgive me!!!

I installed the ‘joe’ editor since I had seen so many other people were having problems with installing the ‘nano’ editor. I did find additional information last night that may be related to the problems people have been experiencing with the ‘nano’ editor. Involves setting a ‘TERMINFO’ and ‘TERM’ variable, but did not sound like there was universal agreement on just how one should do it. I do have the ‘vi’ editor to work with so not being able to get ‘joe’ running is not a critical problem. What concerns me the most is if I can’t get what I thought should be a simple install of an editor to work, what chance will I have on more complex programs. Being such a Linux newbie, I am trying to figure out the things I can do with the highest possible success ratio. I felt that the mt-daapd package was a very safe first adventure, but if it had not been for this forum and the helpful people in it, I would have failed on my first NSLU2 project. So again, thanks to Ron and all the helpful people in this forum. I can’t contribute anything on the coding side, but maybe by documenting things as a Linux Newbie, I can give others like me courage to attempt to get mt-daapd installed and working.

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