RuneAudio as a standalone system (server and client)

JoergZ

Congratulation! RuneAudio ist a very fine system and it works good on my raspberry pi. There are a few further questions:
Is it possible to install X-Server and e. g. LXDE desktop (and Midori browser) at a RuneAudio System?
Is it possible to use the eGalax 7" touchscreen or to use a modified (touchscreen) kernel with the RuneAudio distribution?
Is there a running ncmpcpp package for your system?
(Yes I know that I can manage RuneAudio by smartphone apps but I want to use a touchscreen for more rough usage in my workshop.)
Or must I use another Raspberry with a running touchscreen GUI as a client for RuneAudio?
Thanks

Aquarius

You can add an X server and all the necessary tools to run a browser and load RuneUI on it, but it may not be easy. Rune modifies some packages to fit their needs and you may want to make a copy of your sdcard before you start.

hondagx35

Hi JoergZ,

as Aquarius already wrote it is possible and should not be to hard to do.

A few things to be considered:
- do not make a system update (pacman -Syu), because this will break Rune Audio.
- use the new Raspberry Pi2, because it can handle the higher cpu load much easier.

Frank

JoergZ

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I tried to install the LXDE environment WITHOUT upgrading the whole system. The result was that the GUI not started. After starting the lxdm.service the screen went completly black but the Runeaudio services were still working. The message last seen is

... reached target graphical interface

and then a black screen. I increased the gpu_mem option to 64, I used the hdmi_safe=1 option (both from config.txt) - nothing changed. And then I did the (fatal) system upgrade by pacman -Suy. After this I had a LXDE environment but no Runeaudio runnig

- but there is still the dd image from the running system

. Is there any HowTo or forum feed discussing GUI for Runeaudio?

JoergZ

Now I tried another way. I'm following the cookbook for RPi (https://github.com/RuneAudio/RuneOS/blob/master/01_raspberrypi/cookbook_rpi_production.txt) but not on an arch system as it is desribed in line 6 of the cookbook but a small system with LXDE Desktop. Some wget-links in the area from line 197 to 233 are not up to date. In general that's not the problem. I used the actual file names. But when I use

pacman -U ffmpeg-rune-2.5-1-armv6h.pkg.tar.xz

pacman gives an error message

error: could not open file ffmpeg-rune-2.5-1-armv6h.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format
error: 'ffmpeg-rune-2.5-1-armv6h.pkg.tar.xz': cannot open package file

Then other packages would'nt work: hfsutils-rune.., mpd-rune (because the uninstallable ffmpeg-rune), php-rune has a conflict with existing /var/run:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
php-rune: /var/run exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

and phpredis-rune can't be installed because of the problem with php-rune and so on. I don't know, if the initial problem with ffmpeg-rune causes the other problems. Please can you take a look at the packages if it is real ok?
Question: Is there an actual cookbook-script for building a Runeaudio system from your packages.
Do you have an idea what went wrong with the php-rune installation? /var/run is an elementary folder of linux systems. IMHO it has to be there! I don't understand...
Joerg