Comments on: How to: Compile and run Mediatomb as a daemon with Ubuntu 9.04 http://www.wesg.ca/2009/09/how-to-compile-and-run-mediatomb-as-a-daemon-with-ubuntu-9-04/ macs and more Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:48:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: wesg http://www.wesg.ca/2009/09/how-to-compile-and-run-mediatomb-as-a-daemon-with-ubuntu-9-04/comment-page-1/#comment-2390 wesg Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:07:53 +0000 http://www.wesg.ca/?p=611#comment-2390 @Bill Weswtrup: Thanks for the messages, Bill! I haven't had the chance to try my solution from start to finish yet, but it sounds like your script can help out a lot. I will give it a try when I find some time. @Bill Weswtrup: Thanks for the messages, Bill! I haven’t had the chance to try my solution from start to finish yet, but it sounds like your script can help out a lot. I will give it a try when I find some time.

]]> By: Bill Westrup http://www.wesg.ca/2009/09/how-to-compile-and-run-mediatomb-as-a-daemon-with-ubuntu-9-04/comment-page-1/#comment-2389 Bill Westrup Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:46:06 +0000 http://www.wesg.ca/?p=611#comment-2389 OK heres a start on the script...still has errors though #!/bin/bash wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/mediatomb/mediatomb-daemon_0.11.0-3ubuntu2_all.deb dpkg-deb -x mediatomb-daemon_0.11.0-3ubuntu2_all.deb temp cd temp sudo mkdir /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon sudo cp etc/mediatomb/config.xml /etc/mediatomb/config.xml sudo cp etc/default/mediatomb /etc/default/mediatomb sudo cp etc/init.d/mediatomb /etc/init.d/mediatomb sudo cp etc/logrotate.d/mediatomb /etc/logrotate.d/mediatomb sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.Debian.gz sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.gz sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/copyright /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/copyright cd /var/lib/ ls mediatomb chown -R mediatomb:mediatomb mediatomb sudo chmod 666 mediatomb/mediatomb.html sudo chmod 644 mediatomb/sqlite3.db sudo chmod 644 mediatomb/sqlite3.db-journal update-rc.d mediatomb defaults OK heres a start on the script…still has errors though

#!/bin/bash
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/mediatomb/mediatomb-daemon_0.11.0-3ubuntu2_all.deb
dpkg-deb -x mediatomb-daemon_0.11.0-3ubuntu2_all.deb temp
cd temp
sudo mkdir /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon
sudo cp etc/mediatomb/config.xml /etc/mediatomb/config.xml
sudo cp etc/default/mediatomb /etc/default/mediatomb
sudo cp etc/init.d/mediatomb /etc/init.d/mediatomb
sudo cp etc/logrotate.d/mediatomb /etc/logrotate.d/mediatomb
sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian
sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.Debian.gz
sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.gz
sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/copyright /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/copyright

cd /var/lib/
ls mediatomb
chown -R mediatomb:mediatomb mediatomb
sudo chmod 666 mediatomb/mediatomb.html
sudo chmod 644 mediatomb/sqlite3.db
sudo chmod 644 mediatomb/sqlite3.db-journal
update-rc.d mediatomb defaults

]]> By: Bill Weswtrup http://www.wesg.ca/2009/09/how-to-compile-and-run-mediatomb-as-a-daemon-with-ubuntu-9-04/comment-page-1/#comment-2388 Bill Weswtrup Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:42:09 +0000 http://www.wesg.ca/?p=611#comment-2388 "The folder /var/lib/mediatomb should contain 3 files:" If you compile from source, they won't... “The folder /var/lib/mediatomb should contain 3 files:”

If you compile from source, they won’t…

]]> By: Bill Weswtrup http://www.wesg.ca/2009/09/how-to-compile-and-run-mediatomb-as-a-daemon-with-ubuntu-9-04/comment-page-1/#comment-2387 Bill Weswtrup Sun, 28 Mar 2010 03:34:00 +0000 http://www.wesg.ca/?p=611#comment-2387 I know you mean well...but you have quite a few errors in your instructions sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian - fails $ sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian- fails $ sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.Debian.gz - fails $ sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.gz - fails $ sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/copyright /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/copyright - fails If your having to set this up manually, you will have to create directories...why not simply include that. also prependng every line with $ makes it very tedious to cut and past each line.... why not a bash script for those already know how to copy files at the command line?.... :-) I know you mean well…but you have quite a few errors in your instructions

sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian – fails
$ sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/README.Debian- fails

$ sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.Debian.gz – fails

$ sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/changelog.gz – fails

$ sudo cp usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/copyright /usr/share/doc/mediatomb-daemon/copyright – fails

If your having to set this up manually, you will have to create directories…why not simply include that.

also prependng every line with $ makes it very tedious to cut and past each line….

why not a bash script for those already know how to copy files at the command line?…. :-)

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