Freevo won't start

[samuraix51]

Originally Posted by BootROM Apparently this trick worked for installing a slightly older version on the freevo-users mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...e=freevo-users

This worked for me, I just tried it and Freevo is working just fine now

[finster]

Originally Posted by samuraix51 This worked for me, I just tried it and Freevo is working just fine now

Many thanks for this link. Worked for me too. For anybody else, here's a summary of what I did: -

Remove broken version of freevo

sudo apt-get remove freevo freevo-data python-freevo

Then remove the ubuntu.geole.info sources from your /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following instead: -

deb http://debian.geole.info/ etch main contrib non-free

Then do : -

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freevo

Which should hopefully then install a working version. As the post says, it might be worth removing the geole.info repository after everything is working to make sure that an automatic upgrade doesn't break things again!

Hope this helps!

[BootROM]

Awesome to hear it's working.

Just wondering if anyone has been able to get Freevo version 1.8.0 working on Ubuntu 7.10 or 8.04 beta? I'm on the verge of giving up and just using the older version.

[thib]

This method doesn't work under hardy

[hulluPeruna]

I played around a little bit to find out that the only thing missing is the KAA libs.

I started with the non working version after the update from 1.7.x to Freevo 1.8.0rc2.

I uninstalled freevo using

apt-get remove freevo

Than I followed the instructions to do a SourceInstallation for the missing libs. So I downloaded and installed the latest version of kaa-base, kaa-imlib2 and kaa-metadata from sourceforge.
After that I installed Freevo 1.8.0rc2 from the "deb http://ubuntu.geole.info/ gutsy universe multiverse" mirror.Couple modification on the Configuration and the system was up and running again.

HP

[psavva]

You guys do realise that the RC version is a release candidate. It is still a beta version... Rather get the Stable release and dl the the next update as stable rather than RC. Just wait a little while longer It's worth it

[finster]

Originally Posted by psavva You guys do realise that the RC version is a release candidate. It is still a beta version... Rather get the Stable release and dl the the next update as stable rather than RC. Just wait a little while longer It's worth it

That's the problem - the version in the repositories is the RC version so an upgrade installs the non-working version The instructions above are to roll-back to the working version.

[amr2205]

Originally Posted by finster Many thanks for this link. Worked for me too. For anybody else, here's a summary of what I did: - Remove broken version of freevo sudo apt-get remove freevo freevo-data python-freevo Then remove the ubuntu.geole.info sources from your /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following instead: - deb http://debian.geole.info/ etch main contrib non-free Then do : - sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install freevo Which should hopefully then install a working version. As the post says, it might be worth removing the geole.info repository after everything is working to make sure that an automatic upgrade doesn't break things again! Hope this helps!

It did the trick, thanks!

[hom]

hi,

i install new xubuntu 8.04 and i hope for freevo, but if i can install it (rc2) dont start , user freevo can,t write on /home freevo/...

someone can give me all step for install old freevo version??

tk

[oscaruc]

I've managed to run Freevo 1.8.0 in Hardy (8.04). It's a quite dirty workaround, but works for me. These are the steps I've followed:

1) Add the broken geole repository (Yes, add it!)

deb http://ubuntu.geole.info/ gutsy universe multiverse

2) Install freevo:

aptitude install freevo

3) It will download all dependencies and try to install and configure the freevo package.

4) It will fail when trying to configure it. Well, then

cd /var/lib/dpkg/info/

and delete the file of postinstallation script

rm freevo.postinst

The package won't be correctly configured but doesn't matter because we won't use it.

5) Execute

aptitude -f install

to allow the installation of remaining dependecies packages. At this point we have installed a broken freevo with all its dependencies.

6) Download from freevo.sourceforge.net the .tgz file with version 1.8.0, and uncompress it into a directory. If we execute the freevo binary it will return the following error:

Can't find all Python dependencies:
No module named utils

That's because Hardy uses python 2.5 and Freevo needs a package (PyXML) wich doesn't work directly on 2.5, and is not available.

7) Then, we need to install a similar package called python-xml:

aptitude install python-xml

The needed files are there, but in a different path that python and/or Freevo don't find.

8 ) Go to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages and link the installed package directory with the name Freevo expects:

cd /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages
ln -s oldxml/_xmlplus/

After aaaaaall this, I finally can execute the binary file 'freevo' from the tgz.