hi everyone,

i seem to have a problem installing unmenu that is not even mentioned at the forum. i probably am doing something terribly wrong.

i followed the instructions and copied from the unmenu_install132.zip (http://code.google.com/p/unraid-unmenu/) the unmenu_install file (there was no other file in the .zip although i think i read somewhere that there should be 3 files) to /boot/unmenu. when i write

unmenu_install -i -d /boot/unmenu/

i get the message:

Unable to download release list from http://unraid-unmenu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/release_list

what am i doing wrong?

Thanx in advance

 

 

hi everyone,

i seem to have a problem installing unmenu that is not even mentioned at the forum. i probably am doing something terribly wrong.

i followed the instructions and copied from the unmenu_install132.zip (http://code.google.com/p/unraid-unmenu/) the unmenu_install file (there was no other file in the .zip although i think i read somewhere that there should be 3 files) to /boot/unmenu. when i write

unmenu_install -i -d /boot/unmenu/

i get the message:

Unable to download release list from http://unraid-unmenu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/release_list

what am i doing wrong?

Thanx in advance

 

 

Older releases of unMENU had three zip files, each containing many files. The current 1.3 release has only the one zip file, and in it only one file ... unmenu_install.

 

The first thing to check to make sure your server can connect to the outside world.

 

What happens when you log in on the system console or via telnet and type?:

ping -c 5 google.com

or

ping -c 5 googlecode.com

 

You must have a DNS Server and Gateway defined in your unRAID settings.  If the "ping" commands fail, odds are you do not.

Those are both set on the "Settings" link on the unRAID web-page. In many cases they are set to the IP address of your router.

 

If they work, What happens when you type?:

wget -O /tmp/unmenu_release_list  http://unraid-unmenu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/release_list

(It is the command that is apparently not working, resulting in the error message you are getting.)

 

If you get "wget: command not found" you are probably running an older version of unRAID.  

The "wget" command was added to unRAID in version 4.4.

 

You can either

Download the wget install package from here:

http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/slackware/n/wget-1.11.1-i486-1.tgz

 

Put the file on your flash drive (most of us create a "packages" directory for these files)  Put the wget-1.11.1-i486-1.tgz file there

then log on as root

 

cd /boot/packages

installpkg wget-1.11.1-i486-1.tgz

 

and you'll have the wget command. You can then proceed to use unmenu_install.

 

Or, upgrade to a newer release of unRAID.  It is very easy to upgrade.  Instructions are here

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5496.0

 

Or, if you do not want to upgrade unRAID, you can install the older version of unMENU (the three zip files) Download from here:

http://unraid-unmenu.googlecode.com/files/unmenu_plug-ins-1-2.zip

http://unraid-unmenu.googlecode.com/files/unmenu-1-2.zip

http://unraid-unmenu.googlecode.com/files/unMENU-packagesSept-2009.zip

 

Install them (unzip them all in a "unmenu" folder on your flash drive, run by typing /boot/unmenu/uu )

 

If you are running a version of unMENU, you can download the attached package file for "wget" put it in your /boot/packages directory, and use unMENU to download and install wget.  The unmenu_install you originally tried should then work.

 

Joe L.

wget-unmenu-package.conf

Hi Joe L,

thank you very much for your very prompt response. You actually helped me fix the problem.

I will explain in case someone else ever encounters the same problem.

 

First of all, i have the latest stable version (4.5.3) so it was not a 'wget' problem.

 

The problem was due to the fact that I had connected my unRaid server to the 2nd ethernet port of my PC. Still i have set it up so that it has access to the net by Internet connection Sharing. My mistake was that i was testing internet access with ping but I was using an ip address (ping -c 5 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). This led to me disregarding the fact that i had not setup the DNS server. if i had tried

ping -c 5 google.com

i would have realised my mistake

 

Thus when the installation process invoked the command

wget -O /tmp/unmenu_release_list  http://unraid-unmenu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/release_list

the URL could not be translated to an IP (which i understand is the job of a DNS server)

By fixing the DNS server, everything works fine.

 

For the record, my correct network.cfg settings are the following:

USE_DHCP=no

IPADDR=192.168.0.5

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

GATEWAY=192.168.0.1

DNS_SERVER1=192.168.0.1

 

Again, thanx a lot Joe L.

PS: I have some other questions but i will post them on the respective limetech forums