.DEB package available for Debian/Ubuntu

[paissad]

Hi all,
if you see that deb.paissad.org is down, please do use deb.paissad.net instead.
currently, there are some troubles with my web hosting service with "deb.paissad.org" that will be solved.

This topic contains many pages, and i guess most of people don't want to read all the pages !
But if ever you encounter problems during installations, please try a search before asking a question, thanks.

I've packaged the software for debian & ubuntu distributions, ....
I will also do my best to make the package available in ubuntu repositories as soon as all requirements are respected
Btw, i added some features to the software to make it more "linux and server friendly" ...

A) FEATURES:
1) init.d script,
2) logrotate the debug.log file
3) menu-icon available
4) PMS.conf and WEB.conf files won't be removed if you use apt-get remove ( they are considered as conffiles, .... only apt-get purge will remove them)
5) ...

B) INSTALLATION
Just follow one of automatic or manual installation

AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION
I wrote a script in order to install pms-linux, all its dependencies .... so that newbies or lazy people do not get much troubles ...
Run this command

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wget -q --no-check-certificate https://svn.paissad.net/misc/stuffs/install_PMS.sh -O /tmp/install_PMS.sh && bash /tmp/install_PMS.sh

If you get troubles when running the script .. let me know

MANUAL INSTALLATION
The software and its source is available in this repository , add it to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

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deb http://deb.paissad.org/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.paissad.org/ unstable main contrib


Get the public gpg key

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wget -q -O- http://deb.paissad.org/public-key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Please, send me a personal message if ever you encounter problems while downloading the key .. or if the server is down
Thanks.

Depends(requirements): mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg, openjdk-6-jre
Recommends: vlc, dcraw, tsmuxer, libmediainfo0, libzen0

In order to install libzen0 and libmediainfo0, you must add this repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list and get the key ...

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sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys F9D8BC54

Replace YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION with for example: lucid, karmic, jaunty, ....

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deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/shiki/mediainfo/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mplayer mencoder ffmpeg openjdk-6-jre vlc dcraw libmediainfo0 libzen0 tsmuxer pms-linux


C) RUN
Run it via the menu icon
Or run it via terminal or init.d script

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pms-linux

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sudo /etc/init.d/pms-linux start

D) NOTES:
Do not hesitate reading the manpage

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man pms-linux

You can see the brief changes i did by downloading the source.

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apt-get source pms-linux

NOTE:
I did not include tsMuxeR in the .DEB package knowing that the source code of that software is not available. Thus, i packaged tsMuxeR software into another DEB package ( tsmuxer ) which is available in my personal repository in non-free section. For information, pms-linux is available in section main of the repository !!
You should also take a look at this topic viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1508 in order to install latest version of mplayer,mencoder and so on.
The later, the better.
For people speaking french, they can read the ubuntu doc page
http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/pms-linux
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IF MY PERSONAL SERVER IS DOWN FOR SOME REASON , JUST USE TEMPORARY THE PPA
LAUNCHPAD REPOSITORY WAITING I SOLVE THE PROBLEM ...
SO, THE FOLLOWING IS TOTALLY OPTIONAL, NO NEED TO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS
BELOW IF EVERYTHING ABOVE WORKED PERFECTLY ! (goodbye then ... )

I decided to create it only because it rarely happens that my server to be down for some minutes or hours
But the tsmuxer package which at this moment is only available in my personal repository.
And most of the time, the software version in PPA repository is lower that the one in my personal repository

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/paissad/pms-linux/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/paissad/pms-linux/ubuntu lucid main

Get the PPA key following this command:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8A72660B

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[paissad]

Btw, i would be glad if debian/ubuntu users tell me about some bugs ... i've been testing the .deb for for 2 weeks now, but i don't guarantee it to be bugs free.
Suggestions are welcomed too, of course !
i would be glad too, if there a kind & motivated person who would like to translate the french ubuntu doc http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/pms-linux to english in http://doc.ubuntu.com/

[Craftkiller]

I would like to thank you for your efforts, I am install right now on my headless debian server..... heres to hoping it works!

Edit: appears to be working great out of box.... I didn't both to change /etc/PMS.conf before running it though so I must say I was quite surprised when my ps3 had access to my entire HDD =)

Edit: ran fine out of box, automatically set up to run at start up, easiest set up I could imagine... Thank you sir! Now I can play my FLACs on my ps3 without maintaining a pre-converted collection of mp3s

[paissad]

To Craftkiller:
thanks for your post
I hope that will be quite useful

[Flame060]

Cheers. I'm just starting to learn about linux. Just installed it last weekend, and getting the basics down. This is pretty helpful. Thanks.

[WorldOfHurt]

Good work!

It's nice to finally have this thing packaged for debian rather than leaving the un-initiated to work it out for themselves.

If you are looking for suggestions, one that comes to mind is to include basic customisation support in the apt installer - for instance to add some source folder definitions to the PMS.conf file?

But that would really be gold-plating it

[paissad]

If you are looking for suggestions, one that comes to mind is to include basic customisation support in the apt installer - for instance to add some source folder definitions to the PMS.conf file?

But that would really be gold-plating it

Currently, ubuntu-motu developpers asked me to split the package , i'm working on it.
And if everything's ok, maybe the package could be available for lucid lynx ... ( i have to hurry up )
Btw i will consider your suggestion about "add source folder during apt installer"

Thanks

[Flame060]

I'm not sure if it's just my linux-newbie showing, but when I defined a destination as to where to look for media, it doesn't affect what I have on the PS3 side of things. It just gives me the root folders as starting options. I'll tinker with it a bit, but I may get a quick answer from here.

[paissad]

I'm not sure if it's just my linux-newbie showing, but when I defined a destination as to where to look for media, it doesn't affect what I have on the PS3 side of things. It just gives me the root folders as starting options. I'll tinker with it a bit, but I may get a quick answer from here.

Hi, in your PMS.conf, you must specify the folders to shares by their absolute paths, separate each folder by a comma, and escape each slash "/" by a backslash "\", here is te folder option in my PMS.conf for example

folders = \/media\/sharing-server\/share_1,\/media\/sharing-server\/share_2,\/media\/sharing-server\/Tchargements_share_3,\/media\/sharing-server\/Documents\/Paissad_ZIK

Btw, i will modiy the package and make users choose their sharing folders during installation

[AlphaMale]

Hi, does your .deb package work in i386 Debian Etch (version 4) or do I need Debian Lenny? Or does this not matter and will it work on both distro's?
Also, does the package contain the multi-threaded versions of the mplayer binaries? (mplayer-mt, mencoder-mt and/or ffmpeg-mt)
If not, are you planning to include them so people with multi-core cpu's can try them out?

thanks.