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 Using this method you can have a system which is lean and mean and runs on something like a small solid state drive partition ...and yet still be able to launch larger programs from somewhere else with greater space. With this flexibility it is possible to do things that really increase the speed and efficiency of java apps and most other of today's software that has a large foot print for that matter. Using this method you can have a system which is lean and mean and runs on something like a small solid state drive partition ...and yet still be able to launch larger programs from somewhere else with greater space. With this flexibility it is possible to do things that really increase the speed and efficiency of java apps and most other of today's software that has a large foot print for that matter.
  
-Even so it is still possible to use Serviio as a [[howto:linux:mint_autostart|startup]] program even if it is installed to a /home sub directory of your creation. +Even so it is still possible to use Serviio as a [[howto:linux:mint_autostart|startup]] program even if it is installed to a /home///your_user_name// sub directory of your creation. 
  
-With most forms of linux simply right clicking on the downloaded Serviio tar file will give you the option to decompress the file to any /home sub directory that you create.(you can custom name the directory but the decompressed serviio will be to a sub folder /serviio//####CurrentVersionNumber// unless you tell tar otherwise.)+With most Linux distros simply right clicking on the downloaded Serviio tar file will give you the option to decompress the file to any /home///your_user_name/// sub directory that you create. (you can custom name the serviio folder but the decompressed serviio folder will be to a sub folder /serviio-//####CurrentVersionNumber// unless you tell tar otherwise.)
  
-Keeping your home sub directories in order so that things make sense is highly recommended, my method is to create a /programs where I have Serviio and many other programs which I like to run without core installs. I keep my /root directory down below 10 gig and have it on a different partition than my /home directory which can be huge and is where I do all my file storage.+Keeping your home sub directories in order so that things make sense is highly recommended, my method is to create a /home/eric/programs directory where I have Serviio and many other programs which I like to run without core installs. I keep my /root directory down below 10 gig and have it on a different partition than my /home directory which can be huge and is where I do all my file storage.
  
 However having a separate /home partition is not that important, you can still effectively install programs to /home sub directories even with the default partitioning scheme that most Linux distros do on system install. However having a separate /home partition is not that important, you can still effectively install programs to /home sub directories even with the default partitioning scheme that most Linux distros do on system install.
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 This way if there is something in your saved directories that is incompatible with your new install of Serviio you can revert to the default ones that were installed by tar simply by removing the .old designation after removing the current ones that cause a problem. This way if there is something in your saved directories that is incompatible with your new install of Serviio you can revert to the default ones that were installed by tar simply by removing the .old designation after removing the current ones that cause a problem.
  
-Then all you need to do with Gnome and Mint or other distros with the ability to change the "start Menu" is add the serviio and console .sh scripts as programs to launch from /home///the directory that you put serviio in///serviio-//whatever is current///bin/ to your Menu(s). Other users on the same machine but with a different login will not have these items in their start menu. So if you share this machine with others that do not use a dlna server the changes that you made are not system wide at all. And will not effect the core of Linux in anyway whatsoever.  +Then all you need to do with Gnome and Mint or other distros with the ability to change the "start Menu" is add the serviio and console .sh scripts as programs to launch from /home///your_user_name/////the directory that you put serviio in///serviio-//whatever is current///bin/ to your Menu(s). Other users on the same machine but with a different login will not have these items in their start menu. So if you share this machine with others that do not use a dlna server the changes that you made are not system wide at all. And will not effect the core of Linux in anyway whatsoever.  
  
 You need to make sure that you have sun-java 1.6 and ffmpeg installed and you can do that with the command line or Synaptic or whatever package manager you have ..Slackware and Zenwalk even have these packages so Bobs Your Uncle:-; whatever form of Linux you choose Serviio will work without too much hassle or command line expertise. Some Debian variants and pure Debian will need the non-free media repositories enabled to get the dreaded "proprietary codecs" though. But by and large all newer Linux distros will work well with Serviio. You need to make sure that you have sun-java 1.6 and ffmpeg installed and you can do that with the command line or Synaptic or whatever package manager you have ..Slackware and Zenwalk even have these packages so Bobs Your Uncle:-; whatever form of Linux you choose Serviio will work without too much hassle or command line expertise. Some Debian variants and pure Debian will need the non-free media repositories enabled to get the dreaded "proprietary codecs" though. But by and large all newer Linux distros will work well with Serviio.
  
  
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