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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 | + | Then all you need to do with Gnome and Mint or other distros with the ability to edit the "start Menu" |
- | 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: | + | You can also just right click on the desktop and create launchers to serviio.sh and/or serviio-console.sh |
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+ | It is not absolutely necessary to have serviio in the start menu but if you do it also makes it possible then to have serviio run as a user specific login startup item without having to essentially " | ||
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+ | The process to core install serviio as a service is also documented in this wiki for those who desire to install serviio as a core program. | ||
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+ | That is the really nice part the choice is up to the user. | ||
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+ | 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 .. 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 " | ||
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+ | Understanding complicated command line based instructions is nice and will help speed up tasks that would otherwise require complicated and often poorly constructed desktop GUIs. But this tutorial in how to quickly and easily setup Serviio. | ||
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+ | I am sure that as Serviio progresses there will be those who automate the processes that I have just described with simple install scripts that do everything that I just described. | ||