Thread: nGhost Media Center Beta

Not bad, not bad at all. Keep up the good work!

nGhost Media Center Beta is ready for download.

Download Site

nGhost has a new version released. The next version I'll work on dynamic skinning abilities, so if anyone is interested in making a cool skin here is what you'll need to know:

Skinning Howto

Here is the other relevant links:
Download | Version Notes

thanks
-kev

can't seem to get it to install. What do i need to do?

Is there an error message when you try to run it?
There is a howto in the nanonymous forum but here is the rundown:

1) make sure you have all the dependencies:
libsdl libsdl-image libsdlttf
2) Make sure you have mysql 5.0 server and client
3) Install apache, php5, php5-mysql and the libapache-mod-php5 libraries.

Are there enough dependancies yet???

4)copy the ~/nghost/options folder to your web server directory (usually /var/www or something like that).

5) Run nghost in a terminal: ./nghost

That should be it, if you have any more problems a report in the nanonymous forum would be most relevant. I realize that nghost can be a PITA to install. If anyone has any ideas on how we can make this easier to install let me know. I'm open to help.

Thanks

-kev

hey kev,

the software looks real promising!
until now i was using myth but it's still not very touchscreen-oriented (especially music-browsing sucks with a ts)

running the binary from ubuntu dapper (glibc 3.5) gets you a GLIBC_2.4 not found (must be running edgy for the binary).

then i tried to get the current source but only got the one from 2006-12-17 (still quite recent..) - is there a svn/cvs repo i could check out?

compiling wasn't clean on dapper: i had to edit the libtag-inclusions to <libtag/foo.h> (that's quite debianish ;) )
and comment out the SDL_putenv() line in gui.cpp (where should this be defined or am i missing a header? libsdl1.2-dev is installed [update: also libsdl-ttf2.0-dev and libsdl-image1.2-dev])

for test purposes i didn't want to install apache,php,mysql...
i created a fake /usr/bin/php which returns 0

then i got the gui working =) and.. i'm impressed

For those who want to try the bleeding edge nghost, i've set up a SVN repository for the source at https://nghost.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nghost

-kev

could you allow Anonymous checkout please or credentials?

thanks for the effort!

Fixed