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Installation / Removal => Rockbox Utility => Topic started by: another_adam on May 11, 2019, 09:01:10 PM
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Hello,
Trying to install RB on a Sansa Fuze+. I've downloaded the prebuilt RB Utility binaries for system. Unpacked the tarball. Clicked on the folder. Clicked on the file RockboxUtility-v1.4.0.
Nothing happens. In properties, I have permission to execute it. Advice (please)?
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Used a Ubuntu 14.something on usb to run the utility.
After all is said and done, in Mint, I probably should have tried to start the utility from a terminal rather than gui. Not sure, but I suspect that changing the permission graphically wasn't successful though the box was checked, and it wasn't triggering a warning.
All's well that ends well. Back on RB, finally. Thank you!
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Wasted several hours trying to work around the same issue (Mint 18.3). The GetDeb repository no longer exists so that's not an option. I don't have a spare PC nor a copy of Ubuntu after 10.04.
It took me several hours experimenting to discover the serious defects in the Sansa Clip+ manual and firmware (original & 'latest') - so Rockbox seemed like the ideal solution - if only I could get started... :-\
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I don't know anything about linux mint, but if you can't get the GUI to run on your system, and you don't have access to another PC, you could use the manual install method which requires only command line tools.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but as the Utility doesn't work I don't have much confidence that installing Rockbox will be any more successful. It took me a fraction of the wasted time to create several 5 playlists manually and dump my 50-60 tracks into the Clip's MUSIC folder. A messy, inelegant, but pragmatic solution and I'll live with standard Clip firmware.
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The problem is that the unzipped file name has no extension. Mint 18 & 19 recognise that it is executable file but won't actually run it.
Early this morning I had a thought (based on the OP) - as Utility works under Ubuntu 14.something, was there a Mint version based on Ubuntu 14, in which case I might still have an iso image of it so which I could create a bootable USB key. Yes! Mint 17 - 17.3; never mind an iso image, my previous my laptop still works under dual-boot W7 (needed to update my GPSs) and Mint 17.3! Rockbox Utility runs like a charm (from /home/username) under Mint 17.3 which also recognises that it's an executable and asks what I want to do with it - execute or something else?