There are 3 ways to install Logitech Media Server on you FreeBSD computer: ports, packages and DIY (yes … you have to compile everything)
Ports
Just type:
pkg install portmaster
portmaster audio/logitechmediaserver
IMPORTANT: while configuring the options of all softwares you are going to install, when logitechmediaserver options will be prompted make sure that “TEST” will NOT be ticked.
Note that the last update of this port was at the 11th July 2017.
Package build by me (recommended)
Ports are not constantly updated so I decided to create an installer script which is easy to maintain for my personal use.
This will install Logitechmediaserver 7.9.2 updated at commit 2433703 with these included binaries:
- SoX with DSD support
- Flac 1.3.3
- Faad2 2.8.8
- Wavpack 4.80.0
Instructions (must be executed as root!)
pkg install wget ca_root_nss
wget https://audiodigitale.eu/repo/freebsd/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh
Last update: 13th of October 2019
Installing LMS from my installer script means that you are accepting Logitechmediaserver license -> License_eng
DIY, aka: compile everything from source
Before starting this is what you need:
- libtime.a
- libpatience.a
- Knowledges about what are jails (I will use CBSD to manage them)
Let’s start creating a jail that we will use to build everything:
cbsd jconstruct-tui
In “pkglist” insert manually:
unzip bash gmake rsync nasm wget libgd gcc perl5-5.24.1 automake libtool
Enter in the jail:
cbsd jstart build
cbsd jlogin build
I’m going to use /tmp to download everything and build lms:
cd /tmp
wget http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/7.9/sc/3adb1b4/logitechmediaserver-7.9.1-1489743085.tgz
wget https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver-vendor/archive/public/7.9.zip
unzip 7*
tar xjf l*
Let’s start compiling:
cd slimserver-vendor-public-7.9/CPAN
./buildme.sh -t | tee /tmp/build.log
cd /tmp/logitechmediaserver-7.9.1-1489743085/CPAN/arch/5.24
rm -rf 5.1* && rm -rf 5.8 && rm -rf 5.22 && rm -rf 5.20
cp -Rp /tmp/slimserver-vendor-public-7.9/CPAN/build/arch/5.24/amd64-freebsd-thread-multi .
rm -rf x*
cd /tmp
tar cf FreeBSD-lms-7.9.1.tar logitechmediaserver-7.9.1-1489743085
wget http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/flac-1.3.2.tar.xz
tar xf f*
cd flac-1.3.2
autoreconf -i
./configure --enable-static --disable-shared
make
cd /tmp
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/faac/faad2-2.7.zip
unzip faad2-2.7.zip
cd faad2-2.7
./configure --enable-static --disable-shared
make
cd /tmp
wget http://www.wavpack.com/wavpack-5.1.0.tar.bz2
tar xf wavpack-5.1.0.tar.bz2
cd wavpack-5.1.0
autoreconf -i
./configure --enable-static --disable-shared
make
Now we have to exit from this jail and move everything we have just compiled to a new jail when logitechmediaserver will run.
First of all exit from the build jail:
exit
Create a new jail like we did before including the following packages:
wget perl5-5.24.1 libiconv
cbsd jstart lms
mv /usr/jails/jails-data/build-data/tmp/FreeBSD-lms-7.9.1.tar /usr/jails/jails-data/lms-data/tmp
cbsd jlogin lms
Now I’m going to copy lms and the binaries we have compile above in the “lms” jail. I will include the modified version of SoX able to convert in DSD; for further info: Logitechmediaserver, C-3PO and PCM to DSD conversion
cd /tmp
tar xf F*
pw groupadd -n lms -g 20000
pw useradd -n lms -u 20000 -g lms -s /usr/sbin/nologin -c "Logitech Media Server" -d /nonexistent
mkdir /usr/local/lms
mv logitechmediaserver-7.9.1-1489743085 /usr/local/lms/
cd /usr/local/lms
mv logitechmediaserver-7.9.1-1489743085/* /usr/local/lms
rmdir logitechmediaserver-7.9.1-1489743085
rm -rf Bin/a* && rm -rf Bin/i* && rm -rf Bin/p* && rm -rf Bin/s* && rm -rf Bin/x*
cd Bin
wget https://audiodigitale.eu/repo/sox/sox-FreeBSD
mv sox-FreeBSD sox
exit
Move flac, faad, wavpack binaries into the Bin folder of LMS:
mv /usr/jails/jails-data/build-data/tmp/flac-1.3.2/src/flac/flac /usr/jails/jails-data/lms-data/usr/local/lms/Bin/
mv /usr/jails/jails-data/build-data/tmp/faad2-2.7/frontend/faad /usr/jails/jails-data/lms-data/usr/local/lms/Bin/
mv /usr/jails/jails-data/build-data/tmp/wavpack-5.1.0/cli/wvunpack /usr/jails/jails-data/lms-data/usr/local/lms/Bin/
Back into lms jail:
cbsd jlogin lms
chown -R lms:lms /usr/local/lms
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lms/Bin
mkdir /var/log/lms
mkdir /var/db/lms
mkdir /var/db/lms/cache
mkdir /var/db/lms/prefs
mkdir /var/db/lms/playlists
chown -R lms:lms /var/db/lms
chown -R lms:lms /var/log/lms
cd /etc/rc.d
wget https://audiodigitale.eu/repo/freebsd/lms
chmod 555 lms
echo 'lms_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf && echo 'lms_logdir="/var/log/lms"' >> /etc/rc.conf && echo 'lms_cachedir="/var/db/lms/cache"' >> /etc/rc.conf && echo 'lms_prefsdir="/var/db/lms/prefs"' >> /etc/rc.conf && echo 'lms_playlistdir="/var/db/lms/playlists"' >> /etc/rc.conf
exit
Now restart the jail and Logitech Media Server will start at boot (if you are lucky 😉 )
cbsd jstop lms
cbsd jstart lms
Many thanks for this!
I couldn’t get the port to install no matter what, so your pkg has been a big help!
Any chance we can have an update to the latest 7.9.1 please?
Thanks!
Hi Wayne! At the moment I am quite busy but I think that within the end of January I can update the packages, be patient and thanks again!
No worries there is no rush. 7.9.0 is working very nicely at the moment. Again thanks very much for doing this! Much appreciated 🙂
Well, it seems that you are quite lucky! Try to pkg update and pkg upgrade and tell me if logitechmediaserver will upgrade to 7.9.1. I tried on my VM and it works!
Yes pkg upgrade is done quick and easy. I’ll do some proper testing tomorrow and I find anything strange I’ll report back.
Thanks a lot!!
Hi, I am gettin error when try to LMS from ports
fetch: https://codeload.github.com/Logitech/slimserver/tar.gz/c835a1f?dummy=/Logitech-slimserver-7.9.0.g2016.09.30-c835a1f_GH0.tar.gz: size of remote file is not known
Logitech-slimserver-7.9.0.g2016.09.30-c835a1f_ 179 MB 6178 kBps 00m30s
=> Fetched file size mismatch (expected 187923230, actual 187921541)
=> Trying next site
=> Attempting to fetch http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/Logitech-slimserver-7.9.0.g2016.09.30-c835a1f_GH0.tar.gz
fetch: http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/Logitech-slimserver-7.9.0.g2016.09.30-c835a1f_GH0.tar.gz: Not Found
=> Couldn’t fetch it – please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles// and try again.
*** Error code 1
Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/audio/logitechmediaserver
*** Error code 1
Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/audio/logitechmediaserver
===>>> make build failed for audio/logitechmediaserver
===>>> Aborting update
===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this command line:
portmaster audio/logitechmediaserver audio/faad audio/mac devel/yasm audio/sox audio/flac audio/libogg audio/gsm audio/lame audio/libao audio/libid3tag audio/libmad audio/libsndfile audio/libvorbis audio/opusfile audio/opus devel/libltdl
This command has been saved to /tmp/portmasterfail.txt
root@LMS:/ #
any idea how to solve this?
I did try to do pkg upgrade.
It seems that your port list is not updated. You are using the port for lms 7.9.0 but there is already a port for 7.9.1 Try to First update the ports list.
I used your repository to install in a FreeNAS jail. I had to do:
echo ‘logitechmediaserver_enable=”YES”‘ >> /etc/rc.conf
service logitechmediaserver start
To get it to start, and it seems to be working now.
Many thanks for this!
is it possible to install it on version 10.3.0.3 – Pilingitam (revisione 4374) ?
I think you are using NAS4Free. I’ve never tested on this s.o. but as long it uses pkg (like FreeBSD) as package manager you should be able to install everything. Just try and let me know!
Sorry for my English
I’ve tried but it gives me a version error (use version 11)
I tried with a virtual Nas4free version 11 and it works but I installed the 10 on my nas.
If you want, I can send you the error. I install a virtual Nas4free with the same version of my real
This is the error
pkg: wrong architecture: freebsd:11:x86:64 instead of FreeBSD:10:amd64
pkg: repository audiodigitale contains packages with wrong ABI: freebsd:11:x86:64
Resolved
setenv ABI freebsd:11:x86:64
Perfect 😉 Is everything working?
Thanks for the great tips and instructions!
Just a note that you can make your life easier if you build against a static Perl installation that is not dependent on ports changes. Just download Perl sources from CPAN (http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.24.3.tar.gz) and install into alternate location, e.g.:
cd perl-5.24.3
./Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr/home/squeezeboxserver/perl-5.24.3-LMS -Dusethreads
make
make test
make install-strip
Now you can build LMS using this alternate version of Perl with “./buildme.sh -t -p /home/squeezeboxserver/perl-5.24.3-LMS/bin/perl”, and next time you upgrade FreeBSD release, you just need to re-build Perl 5.23.4 as above, and you are good to go! Remember to update the interpreter command in the start-up script and the perl executable in slimserver.pl to /home/squeezeboxserver/perl-5.24.3-LMS/bin/perl.
BTW, I had a problem building latest CPAN modules, and had to make a change to the buildme.sh script (comment out one patch line:
#patch -p0 < ../../icu58_patches/digitlst.cpp.patch). You might want to uncomment build IO::Socket::SSL as well if you are planning to ever use Spotty plugin.
Thanks for the tips, really useful!
Thanks for all of the information. I installed via pkg but run into an error when I try to start the service:
Starting logitechmediaserver
The following modules failed to load: DBI EV XML::Parser::Expat JSON::XS Digest::SHA1 YAML::XS Sub::Name
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
Mmm, I have an idea. When you install a package pkg tries to find the dependencies from all the mirrors, if you have multiple mirrors he will choose the one with the last version ofc. Maybe (?) the compiled version of LMS in my repo has some problem with the last version of perl. You can try to uninstall the packages and dependencies that you have installed, comment the link to the official repository and leave only my repository, try to install LMS and only after that restore the the FreeBSD.conf file.
I will recompile and update every package as soon as possibl, but for the moment try to do this and let me know.
I completely removed the FreeBSD repository from the file. I then installed LMS and it is running. I did receive an error when I started the service but I forgot to capture the error before deploying the unit. I will try to grab it next time I am connected to that machine and post it back here. I believe it was a SSL error but am not 100% positive. Thanks for the info on the repo solution!