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droz1
Feb 19, 2015Aspirant
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 ...
dsm1212
Feb 19, 2016Apprentice
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
mdgm-ntgr
Feb 20, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
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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