TwonkyMedia on Unbuntu and other Debain based Linux flavors

[mgillespie]

The default installer does not currently work for Ubuntu, Debain and other Debain based flavors of Linux. HornedBeast has however written a guide that shows how to install it.

Notes: I can only assume this will work on Debian and Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, Server and Desktop editions. Its untested on everything apart from Ubuntu Server 8.04 32bit./b]

If you are running 64bit, you need to install the 32bit library's first. Run tis inside a terminal:

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sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

To download the latest stable version of TwonkyMedia, make sure your in the default directory that you started in after logging in (either via SSH or locally) then type the following command.

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wget http://twonkymedia.com/Download/4.4/twonkymedia-i386-glibc-2.2.5.sh

If you would like to try the latest V5 Beta version of twonky, type this command:

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wget http://twonkyvision.com/Download/5.0/twonkymedia-i386-glibc-2.2.5.sh

This invokes the “Web Get” command which downloads the address after the “wget” bit. This should only take a second.

Now to install the server itself. This is the same for both the Stable release and the Beta release as the file names are the same:

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sudo chmod 777 twonkymedia-i386-glibc-2.2.5.sh
sudo ./twonkymedia-i386-glibc-2.2.5.sh

Ignore any errors about not starting properly or permissions denied – we'll fix this ourselves. This will automatically install the software to '/usr/lib/TwonkyMedia' and attempt to make it start at boot time. However, because TwonkyMedia hasn't been correctly setup to install to Ubuntu or Debian properly we shall have to do some fiddling to fix this.

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cd /etc/init.d/
sudo chmod 755 twonkyserver
sudo nano twonkyserver

Look for this line inside the file:

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echo -n "Starting $TWONKYSRV ... "
$TWONKYSRV -D -inifile "${INIFILE}"
rc_status -v

And replace it with:

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echo -n "Starting $TWONKYSRV ... "
$TWONKYSRV -D -ip 192.168.0.2 -inifile "${INIFILE}"
rc_status -v

Changing the IP according to your server setup. "Ctrl + O" to write the file ("out") back to the drive and "Ctrl - X" to quit 'nano'.

Then you need to run the following command.

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sudo update-rc.d twonkyserver defaults

Now you can restart the server via:

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sudo update-rc.d twonkyserver defaults

And once it has restarted you should be able to visit http://192.168.1.2:9000/ and see your new media server running!