Covert a G5 - Airtime Support Discussions on Sourcefabric Forum

Frank Blood · Post edited by Frank Blood at 2012-07-22 17:55:28

Hello,

I'm an extreme Ubuntu/Linux newbie. So, please, go easy on me.

I want to convert a Apple G5 PowerMac into a Ubuntu machine. I have a few questions. First, do I have to run the server version of Ubuntu on my PPC? Yes, I want to serve music on the new machine using Airtime. But, can one do this through the desktop version? Or, does it _have_ to be a server version of the OS?

FB

Martin Konecny

You may use either the server or desktop edition.

However since you're using the PPC architecture there will be a small problem during install which you will need to take special steps to avoid. Come back here with the results of "lsb_release -a" (type this into the Ubuntu terminal) and I can point out the steps required.

Frank Blood

Thanks Martin,

It gonna be a week before I start to convert. Getting everything together at this point.

Frank Blood · Post edited by Frank Blood at 2012-08-07 14:35:22

Martin here are the results:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:   Ubuntu
Description:   Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release:   12.04
Codename:   precise

Hope this helps...

Martin Konecny

Hi,

In the current version of Airtime (2.1.3), you will need to do some manual tweaking to get Airtime running on PPC. In an upcoming patch this will be much easier (2.1.4).

Before installing Airtime do

"sudo apt-get install liquidsoap"

Now download the Airtime 2.1.3 tarball:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/airtime/files/2.1.3/

Now extract the file and open

python_apps/pypo/install/pypo-initialize.py

and replace its contents with the contents available here:

https://raw.github.com/sourcefabric/Airtime/d9e8e7d4cb48b7adabcadb3980052930bfb93033/python_apps/pypo/install/pypo-initialize.py

(This is patched code from the 2.1.4 install).

This should get Airtime up and running on your PPC machine.

Tim RadioClash

I tried this with 2.3 and unsurprisingly didn't work - and wasn't really sure how to install anyway (tried the full install script - which of course can't find PPC in the repository, so fails...)

Are there any instructions for compiling or installing 2.3 on PPC?

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