Comments on Jason Friedland: Installing Mediatomb on Solaris 11 Express

Thanks for the instructions Jason and the addition...

2011-05-26T22:12:32.564+10:00

Thanks for the instructions Jason and the additions Jerry, I've found another small problem with the configure of mediatomb, when running I received the errors...

configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-magic-h, --with-magic-libs
configure: WARNING: your magic library is broken, if you are using Slackware install the 'file' package manually

After a quick read of the 'configure' script it looks like the options have changed, ran ok with...

./configure --enable-libmagic --with-libmagic-h=/usr/local/include --with-libmagic-libs=/usr/local/lib

Now streaming meda to my new Humax PVR ;-)

Excellent instructions Jason. I seem to have an is...

2011-04-18T13:40:58.078+10:00

Excellent instructions Jason. I seem to have an issue where running the service puts it in to a maintenance state. If I run it in a console manualy it appears to run just fine. I've tried changing the configuration file to reflect various users/groups with the same result.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Correction to the above The manpath in the /var/...

2011-04-06T02:47:43.702+10:00

Correction to the above

The manpath in the /var/svc/manifest/application/mediatomb.xml should be:
/usr/local/share/man

Instructions are very helpful, but I did run into ...

2011-04-06T02:45:59.467+10:00

Instructions are very helpful, but I did run into a couple of issues. Assuming that we have a clean install of OSE 11 (like mine), users will need to run through some additional steps to get everything working.

Permissions for /lib/svc/method/svc-mediatomb need to be setup properly:
chmod 755 /lib/svc/method/svc-mediatomb

Setup proper ownership of /lib/svc/method/svc-mediatomb
chown root:bin /lib/svc/method/svc-mediatomb

The manpath in the /var/svc/manifest/application/mediatomb.xml should be:

Also I changed the running user from "media" to "nobody". By default there is no "media" user unless you create it.

Update the config file /etc/mediatomb.conf usernames:
MT_USER="nobody"
MT_GROUP="nobody"

Update permissions for the configuration files:
chown nobody:nobody -R /etc/mediatomb*

Hi Jason After editing main.cc, I was able to con...

2011-01-11T13:51:45.881+10:00

Hi Jason

After editing main.cc, I was able to continue and complete the installation.

I wasn't able to connect to Mediatomb.

Since I'm using the desktop version I went ahead and installed apache, (pkg install apache-22) but still couldn't connect ip:50500.

Help please.

Hi Neil You don't need to worry about the mis...

2011-01-11T08:45:59.490+10:00

Hi Neil

You don't need to worry about the missing items in the configuration summary, they won't affect the build.

It looks like the patch has failed somehow as the error below appears to be the compiler unable to parse the C++ code. Can you please re-extract the archive (restore main.cc) and manually comment out the section that begins with:

#ifdef SOLARIS
...
#endif

Using C-style comments (/* ... */).

Thanks, let me know how you go.

Jason

Hi Jason Thank you for your post. Can you please ...

2011-01-11T05:57:13.702+10:00

Hi Jason

Thank you for your post. Can you please help me with my installation.

I installed the live cd version of Oracle Solaris 11 Express and followed your Mediatomb installation steps but got some issues.

These are my steps until I ran into difficulty.

1. I installed gcc like: pkg install gcc-3
2. make was up to date
3. I got the libmagic file utility library from: wget ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-5.04.tar.gz
...and followed your instructions.
4. I got mediatomb from: wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/mediatomb/files/MediaTomb/0.12.1/mediatomb-0.12.1.tar.gz
...and followed your instructions

4a. I had to change the directory, cd ../mediatomb-0.12.1 'to' cd /mediatomb-0.12.1

5. For the patch, I did: touch mediatomb-0.12.1/src/main.cc.patch0
5a. vi touch mediatomb-0.12.1/src/main.cc.patch0
...and copy and paste your patch.

6. After I applied the patch
6a. I did: ./configure --enable-libmagic --with-magic-h=/usr/local/include --with-magic-libs=/usr/local/lib

CONFIGURATION SUMMARY ----

sqlite3 : yes
mysql : missing
libjs : missing
libmagic : yes
inotify : missing
libexif : yes
id3lib : disabled
taglib : missing
libmp4v2 : missing
ffmpeg : missing
ffmpegthumbnailer : missing
lastfmlib : missing
external transcoding : yes
curl : yes
YouTube : yes
libextractor : disabled
db-autocreate : yes

Are the missing items required and if so how do I install them?

Thank you
Neil