Hi,

 

is it possible to install new package on unRAID server ? i would like to install par2cmdline (like Quickpar) and unrar ?

 

Thanks

Yes, see:

 

http://www.lime-technology.com/wordpress/?page_id=34

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=871.0

Thanks a lot. 

 

Can you help me for install par2cmdline ? i'm a UNIX's noob.

 

When i do this :

installpkg par2cmdline-0.4.tar.gz

 

System return :

 

"WARNING: pkgtools are unstable with tar > 1.13.

        You should provide a "tar-1.13" in your $PATH.

Cannot install par2cmdline-0.4.tar.gz: package does not end in .tgz"

 

Using some download manager in Windows?  Some Windows download managers rename the *.tgz file to *.gz ... just rename it back to *.tgz and the installpkg command should work fine.

 

Hey tafkap,

 

Were you able to get quickpar and unrar installed and working?

I would like to obtain your notes, steps on how you've went about this for other UX Noobs like me ;-)

 

Thanks,

M

Using some download manager in Windows?  Some Windows download managers rename the *.tgz file to *.gz ... just rename it back to *.tgz and the installpkg command should work fine.

 

Ok thanks i renamed the file *.gz to *.tgz and installpkg don't send error, i have the following message at the end of installation process  :

 

Installing package par2cmdline-0.4.tar...

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:

 

That's all, i think it's not ok because i don't have the command par2cmdline...

 

Thanks for help. 

Follow the instructions here:

 

http://www.filewatcher.com/p/par2cmdline-0.4.tgz.133344/share/doc/par2cmdline/README.html

Hi,

 

i tested this instructions :

 

  ./configure ->No such file or directory

  make ->command not found

  make check ->command not found

  make install ->command not found

 

installpkg don't give me error so why i can't find the command par2 ? 

 

 

OK... there are two basic ways to install software on a Linux system.  One is to copy (by hand or with an script) the executable program and support files to the system.  This is also the procedure that is used when you install a new program under Windows 

 

The other way to install software under Linux (and the way it is done 99% of the time) is to copy the source code to the system, and then compile it. 

 

The program you attempted to install, was of the latter flavor.  You installed the source code, and now have to compile it.  In order to compile the source code, you have to install the make kit, the gcc compiler, and all the libraries needed to compile source code.  That is not a trivial task.

 

Another route is to have a full Slackware installation done on another computer, install and compile programs there, and then move the necessary files by hand to the unRAID system, or make installable packages with the Slackware utilities for that purpose.  Some things have to be compiled into the kernel, or at least have support compiled into the kernel (such as NFS) and you essentially can't make them work on unRAID if the support isn't in the kernel without a lot of hand-work.

 

You will do better with installable packages already compiled for the x86 platform under Slackware, at http://packages.slackware.it/

 

I am working on some documentation for exactly what someone needs to do in order to be able to compile programs on unRAID.  I may play around with the Slackware package tools on my development system

Hi bubbaQ, thanks for your answer.

 

It's hard for me to install Slackware

 

I sought PAR2 package on http://packages.slackware.it/ but i did not find anything.

 

So is it possible for you to compil and create a specific package for me ? 

 

 

 

I have a long list of "to-dos" in this regard, so I'll consider it.

 

However, the package you refer to doesn't really seem to be ripe for an "always-on" box like unRAID.  I would think you can run the par2 tools on Windows, and just process files off of the unRAID shares.

 

Downloads that could take hours are more appropriate for running unattended on an "always -on" box.

Finally i think that you are right.

 

PAR2 tools will run on Windows...

 

Thanks 

I have a long list of "to-dos" in this regard, so I'll consider it.

 

However, the package you refer to doesn't really seem to be ripe for an "always-on" box like unRAID.  I would think you can run the par2 tools on Windows, and just process files off of the unRAID shares.

 

Downloads that could take hours are more appropriate for running unattended on an "always -on" box.

 

This is my current method, I d/l into a mapped folder on unraid nas and par & rar the files there using windows.

Then I move it into a more structured folder for easy archive, since it's on the same disk, it's a quick move and not a network copy.

 

I thought tafkap might have found a faster/better method but the above steps works fairly well so far.

 

I noticed that the speed of decompression of files PAR2 was slower on my unRAID server, i suppose because of the outward call/back between my unRAID server and my local Windows, so the idea was to decompress file directly on my unRAID server.

 

Now i download my files on my Windows PC and after i transfer the decompressed files to unRAID.