Install on Ubuntu Mate for the Raspberry Pi

boden commented 6 years ago

Here just some notes on stuff I had to do to get the software running on Ubuntu Mate for Raspberry Pi instead of Raspbian. Maybe someone else will find it helpful.

PHP has to be installed with sudo apt install php php-cgi instead of the command given in the docs. This will install PHP7, which seems to work flawlessly.
As on Mate the username is set during the install, it's usually differet from the common pi user on Raspbian. I hence had to change $conf['base_path'] in ./htdocs/config.php to match my home folder.
I could not get auto login for my user working via raspi-config as recommended in the docs. As a workaround, I added autostart of the demon to /etc/crontab instead, which works (almost) the same way.
Last but not least, I somehow have to run the demon with sudo to have sound. Probably just a missing group membership or something like that, but I have yet to investigate.

So far everthing works great, thanks again for sharing! :)

MiczFlor commented 6 years ago

Thank you @boden , I plan to add a couple of tips and tricks to the INSTALL and CONFIGURE files. I will include this, too.

MiczFlor commented 6 years ago

@boden I added your short howto here: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#installing-on-ubuntu-mate-for-raspberry-pi

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