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Tested and working without any issues, log warnings, etc. with Serviio 1.5.1
When entering commands, change Username “Lisa” to your own username.

Let's get started…

#java 8 install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

#Add the FFMPEG repositories and install FFMPEG

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kirillshkrogalev/ffmpeg-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

#serviio 1.5 download and extract:

wget http://download.serviio.org/releases/serviio-1.5.1-linux.tar.gz
sudo tar xzf serviio-1.5.1-linux.tar.gz

#Rename container and move the directory

mv serviio-1.5.1 serviio
sudo mv serviio /usr/local/share/

#Create the script that will launch the Serviio service at boot

sudo gedit /etc/init/serviio.conf

Paste this into the new text file:

start on started networking
script
   LANG=es_ES.utf8 /usr/local/share/serviio/bin/serviio.sh
end script

Close gedit

#Assign executable permissions

sudo chown -R Lisa:Lisa /usr/local/share/serviio/

#Start the service for the first time

sudo start serviio

cd /usr/local/share/serviio/bin/

sh serviio.sh

#Start the configuration UI

sudo /usr/local/share/serviio/bin/serviio-console.sh 

#Create a launcher on the Desktop that will launch the configuration UI (when you need to change settings)

Right click the desktop “create new launcher” and set the path as
“gksudo /usr/local/share/serviio/bin/serviio-console.sh”

Enjoy!

The Serviio service will launch automatically from now on when you start your computer (You will not see the Serviio icon in the systray from now on but you can verify if the service is running with:

initctl list | grep serviio