Xibo

Linux client install

Asked by Till Hafener

Hi all

First o all than you very much for this excellent piece of software. Had a Windows based installation first but I came
across the problem that I cannot scale web pages in the specific areas... it is not looking good because parts of the
page are cut off and only a part is being displayed.

Because I like the web page feature I tried a linux install today and managed to install the server component but
the client install is still a riddle to me, is there no more precise instruction ?
Of course it was so stupid to notice too late that 10.04 is the latest supportted version and I tried 11.04 but I
still do not understand what to do, to compile or not ?
Of course it seems I have to reinstall the whole box but more precise installation instructions would really be
great

Thank you very much

cheers Till

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Brian Mathis (bcmathis) said : 		#1

Once you have 10.04 installed, download the python installer script which can be downloaded from here - http://launchpad.net/xibo/1.3/1.3.0/+download/xibo-1.3.0-ubuntu.all-pyclient.sh

Open a terminal and navigate to where you saved the script (default firefox location is ~/Downloads) and run the script by entering "sudo sh ./xibo-1.3.0-ubuntu.all-pyclient.sh"

Follow the onscreen instructions and it will install all the dependencies and everything else needed for Xibo to run.

Once the installer is finished, edit the site.cfg file location at /opt/xibo/client/python/. Once edited, you can run Xibo by opening a terminal again and entering "./run.sh" or "./run_always.sh"

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Till Hafener (till-hafener) said : 		#2

Thank you Brian

Made the suggested steps on 10.04 but I cannot start the client via the run script. I get a error message
like the following :
[11-10-27 12:41:35.992] ERROR: Setting SDL video mode failed: Couldn't find matching GLX visual (width=1280, height=800, bpp=24, multisamplesamples=1):

I should also menthion that this Ubuntu 10.04 box runs as a virtual machine under VMware Server 2.0, might this
be the problem ?
It was meant for testing purposes both server and client on the same machine...

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Till Hafener (till-hafener) said : 		#3

Ok no answer, tried a physical box with Ubuntu 10.04 and installed 1.3.0 Server and Client but I cannot regsiter the display or start the client, still receiving a error message <Fault Sender Your client is not of the correct version for communicating with this server.
Any hints ?

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Till Hafener (till-hafener) said : 		#4

Using the diagnostic -i switch I found out thet the client is 1.3.1 in reality while the server is 1.3.0, may this be the problem ?

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Till Hafener (till-hafener) said : 		#5

It was the problem, solved ;)