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Installing 32 bit MediaCenter 23 on older debian like distros

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bob:
Since distro's like Ubuntu 16.04 are older than debian stable so some of their libraries are incompatible with the the current AMD64 (x86_64) build.
In this case you can install the 32 bit build of MediaCenter23 which is built on the previous Debian Stable (Jessie) without any performance loss.

Update September 2017: We backed the 64 bit build off to Jessie so it now installs on Ubuntu 16.04. You don't need to run 32bit on there.

To do this, following the instructions in the sticky post about installing the apt repositories, you should use the LATEST repo instructions.
Install the key if you haven't already:
wget -q "http://dist.jriver.com/mediacenter@jriver.com.gpg.key" -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Purge any amd64 builds you tried to install:
dpkg --purge mediacenter23:amd64

Remove any prior mediacenter23 repository entries:
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mediacenter23*

Add the current latest repo:
sudo wget http://dist.jriver.com/latest/mediacenter/mediacenter23.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mediacenter23.list

Update the repo and install the 32 bit build of mediacenter23:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mediacenter23:i386

This will install MediaCenter23 and ALMOST all of it's dependencies however there are a couple missing from MediaCenter23's list that you also need to install:

sudo apt-get install libunistring0:i386 libgomp1:i386

You will now be able to run MediaCenter 23 as a regular user (not root please).

proximuss:
Thanks Bob, appreciate your help here!
One remark - this all works if you add 64 bit LATEST repository, not 32 bit LATEST.
If you go with 32bit LATEST, then mediacenter23:i386 is not there!
Now - will deal with licence install and then will see how everything works!

Thanks.

bob:

--- Quote from: proximuss on August 29, 2017, 01:36:31 pm ---Thanks Bob, appreciate your help here!
One remark - this all works if you add 64 bit LATEST repository, not 32 bit LATEST.
If you go with 32bit LATEST, then mediacenter23:i386 is not there!
Now - will deal with licence install and then will see how everything works!

Thanks.

--- End quote ---
I edited that latest mediacenter23.list file so it's good for 32 and 64 bit and updated the instructions above, thanks!

proximuss:
Couple of things i've noticed already running 32 bit version are:
1) time to time i get a crash with only one sentence left in terminal -  "segmentation fault";
2) there is no way i can see a mounted samba share when i am choosing a location for my library. If i remember correctly in 64bit version it was appearing in file browser left panel.

bob:

--- Quote from: proximuss on August 29, 2017, 02:01:40 pm ---Couple of things i've noticed already running 32 bit version are:
1) time to time i get a crash with only one sentence left in terminal -  "segmentation fault";

--- End quote ---
This could be a bad file. You could turn on logging to find out.
It might also be something odd on your network, perhaps turn off Media Network to test.

--- Quote ---2) there is no way i can see a mounted samba share when i am choosing a location for my library. If i remember correctly in 64bit version it was appearing in file browser left panel.

--- End quote ---
I'll test this but it's unlikely to be a mounted share. The files in a mounted share are like any other file. It's more likely an unmounted share.
Doing a df -k from a prompt would tell the tale...

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