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Experience with OS 6 on Legacy....
Does anyone have any thoughts, tips, caveats to running OS6 on legacy hardware? I see lots of complaints, problems, etc. I'd like to hear from anyone that's got it running and using it on a day ...
Saw your post about running sickbeard on OS6 on RNU6... I'm trying to do that aswell, and I seem to be able to install the plugins from the app store, but not sure they are configuring properly. Plex and Transmission seem to be ok. Can't use the SSH at all. Couchpotato and Sickbeard seem to let me configure the, and they recognize Transmission, but don't find any content for download.
Any advice on how to setup/test the media grabbing apps? I can't seem to find any configuration or installation instructions for the readynas packaged apps. Is there some documentation I can follow for step by step installation and configuration of these open source tools?
Thanks for reading this, any hints are appreciated.
My description would not be for the faint of heart :-). I've enabled ssh and pretty much installed everything myself. I did use the sickbeard addon but later switched to a new/better distro from github. I used the qbittorrent addon and then from ssh built and installed the latest qbittorrent. I added qbittorrent support to headphones but haven't got it up to github yet because the maintainer has kind of blocked out master with some tests that fail.
Essentially you start by getting ssh access, then installing git. Then for each app using SSH I added a user account for that app to run out of and put it in the users group. Then I created a directory under /apps. Say /apps/sickbeard. su to the sickbeard account and use git to replicate the source. Configure the ini file and start the app. Once you get it working you need to add a startup script in /etc/init.d unless you used an addon and automatic startup is already in place. If you used the addon then just update the software put down by the addon to the version you want. Sorry, I'm sure this is not what you wanted and if you are not comfortable you should not do this. Be very careful setting all paths in the ini files as you can fill up the root partition quickly and it can be a pain to clean up. Trust me, I know :-).
steve
Better to use systemd than init.d scripts.
There may be newer versions of some apps e.g. in super-poussin's Dropbox or at rnxtras.com
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