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-<note important>This guide assumes you are starting from scratch, with a brand new Ubuntu 18.04 (any flavour, including Minimal) installation, and need a new Serviio install.</note>+<note important>This guide assumes you are starting from scratch, with a brand new Ubuntu 18.04 - 22.04 (any distribution, including Minimal/Netboot) installation, and need a new Serviio install.</note>
  
 +This installation is based on 18.04.2 LTS, Minimal Edition, 20.04 Netboot, and Xubuntu 22.04 (but this should work for any version of Ubuntu 18.04 - 22.04 or any desktop variant).  At the time of the updating this document (December 14, 2022), the newest version of Serviio is 2.3.
  
-This installation is based on 18.04.2 LTS, Minimal Edition (but this should work for any version of Ubuntu 18.04, or any desktop variant).  At the time of this writing (March 17, 2019), the newest version of Serviio is 1.10.1. +Please read the entire procedure before installation so you are familiar with the process before “taking on the terminal”.
- +
-Please read the entire procedure before installing so you are familiar with the process before “taking on the terminal”.+
  
 This was tested using an Intel i5-4th Generation computer with 16GB of RAM This was tested using an Intel i5-4th Generation computer with 16GB of RAM
  
-Since the Minimal install also doesn’t contain the packages of its big brothers, this will give you the information you need to install all the packages required to run Serviio from a Ubuntu Minimal 18.04 (or Ubuntu Serverinstallation.  The process is the same on the other Ubuntu variants, but some of the software packages will be pre-installed.+Since the Minimal install also doesn’t contain the packages of its big brothers, this will give you the information you need to install all the packages required to run Serviio from a minimal Ubuntu Server installation.  The process is the same on the other Ubuntu variants, but some of the software packages will be pre-installed
 + 
 +If you have a desktop variant, all you should have to do is to copy and paste the text in the boxes into a terminal.
  
-1. Download and Install Ubuntu 18.04. (Any variant will work with this guide: Ubuntu Desktop, Minimal, Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Bodhi, etc.).+1. Download and Install Ubuntu 18.04 - 22.04 (Any variant will work with this guide: Ubuntu Desktop, Minimal, Netboot, Server, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Bodhi, etc.).
  
-2. Make sure you have all the updates by running the following two commands at least once:+2. Open a Terminal window.  Make sure you have all the updates by running the following two commands at least once:
  
 <code>sudo apt update <code>sudo apt update
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 </code> </code>
  
-It will ask for your user password, followed by the new submission for the password for root, and a confirmation of that password.+It will ask for your user password, followed by the new submission for the password for root, and a confirmation of that password.  Make sure this is an extremely complex password, as a person can do a great amount of damage to a system by logging in as root.
  
-4. Install a few things. (Some of these will already be installed if you have a desktop variant, of which Ubuntu will warn you and then install the rest, but all are recommended if you installed Ubuntu Minimal or Server.)  Run the following commands:+4. Install a few things. (Some of these will already be installed if you have a desktop variant, of which Ubuntu will notify you and then install the rest, but all are recommended if you installed Ubuntu Netboot or Server.)  Run the following commands:
  
 <code>sudo apt update <code>sudo apt update
-sudo apt install net-tools software-properties-common openjdk-8-jre default-jre ffmpeg dcraw wget+sudo apt install net-tools software-properties-common openjdk-11-jre default-jre ffmpeg dcraw wget
 </code> </code>
  
-It will take a while to download and install.  The command will install a package for network metrics, the software to add repositories, the Java Runtime Environment, the video transcoder, picture decoder/thumbnailer, and file downloader, as well as all their dependencies.+It will take a while to download and install.  The command will install a package for network metrics, the software to bind file types, executables, and repositories, the Java Runtime Environment, the video transcoder, picture decoder/thumbnailer, and file downloader, as well as all their dependencies.
  
 5. Installing Serviio. 5. Installing Serviio.
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 b.  Download the Serviio software. b.  Download the Serviio software.
  
-<code>sudo wget http://download.serviio.org/releases/serviio-1.10.1-linux.tar.gz+<code>sudo wget http://download.serviio.org/releases/serviio-2.3-linux.tar.gz
 </code> </code>
  
 c.  Extract the software. c.  Extract the software.
  
-<code>sudo tar zxvf serviio-1.10.1-linux.tar.gz+<code>sudo tar zxvf serviio-2.3-linux.tar.gz
 </code> </code>
  
 d.  Create a soft link to the Serviio directory. d.  Create a soft link to the Serviio directory.
  
-<code>sudo ln -s serviio-1.10.1 serviio+<code>sudo ln -s serviio-2.serviio
 </code> </code>
  
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 f.  Run the following command to start Serviio. f.  Run the following command to start Serviio.
  
-<code>sudo /opt/serviio/bin/serviio.sh+<code>sudo /opt/serviio/bin/serviio.sh &
 </code> </code>
  
 g.  Go to a browser to test and make sure Serviio is running by going to the following web page.  (You can use the “ifconfig” command on the Linux machine to find the IP address if you do not know it.) Replace (IPaddress) with the Serviio machine IP address while attached to the same network.  If you see the console page, you have done well... g.  Go to a browser to test and make sure Serviio is running by going to the following web page.  (You can use the “ifconfig” command on the Linux machine to find the IP address if you do not know it.) Replace (IPaddress) with the Serviio machine IP address while attached to the same network.  If you see the console page, you have done well...
  
-http://(IPaddress):23423/console+<code>http://(IPaddress):23423/console 
 +</code>
  
 If you have a graphical desktop on your computer, you can also open the Serviio console from the command line. If you have a graphical desktop on your computer, you can also open the Serviio console from the command line.
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 h.  Remove the installation file. h.  Remove the installation file.
  
-<code>sudo rm serviio-1.10.1-linux.tar.gz+<code>sudo rm serviio-2.3-linux.tar.gz
 </code> </code>
  
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 j.  Put in the following information: j.  Put in the following information:
  
-<code>[Unit]+<code> 
 +[Unit]
 Description=Serviio Media Server Description=Serviio Media Server
 After=syslog.target local-fs.target network.target After=syslog.target local-fs.target network.target
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 [Service] [Service]
 Type=simple Type=simple
 +StandardOutput=null
 ExecStart=/opt/serviio/bin/serviio.sh ExecStart=/opt/serviio/bin/serviio.sh
 ExecStop=/opt/serviio/bin/serviio.sh -stop ExecStop=/opt/serviio/bin/serviio.sh -stop
-KillMode=none+KillMode=mixed 
 +TimeoutStopSpec=30
 Restart=on-abort Restart=on-abort
  
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 Congratulations!  Serviio is installed. Congratulations!  Serviio is installed.
  
-Again, you should be able to access the console using http://(IPAddress):23423/console+Next, you need to start setting it up from the console using:  
 +<code>http://(IPAddress):23423/console 
 +</code> 
 + 
 +If you are having issues, The F.A.Q. is located here: 
 +[[https://serviio.org/support|Serviio Support]] 
 + 
 +And, the support forums are located here: 
 +[[https://forum.serviio.org|Serviio Forum]]
howto/linux/install/ubuntu18-04.txt · Last modified: 2023/04/11 21:45 by cmakula