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[JimH]

The process is a little different than the Windows version.

Open Help > Purchase in MC and manually enter your Registration Code.  You can retrieve your Registration Codes by using option #2 on the Restore Page here:

https://rover.jriver.com/cgi-bin/restore.cgi

If you have trouble, please read this:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Restoring_a_License

The version of the program must match the version of the license.

Some possible solutions to licensing issues

• Make sure your computer is connected to the internet and is not blocked for https access to the internet (port 443).
• Check to see if your computer's time and date are accurate.
• Try to copy and paste the license code in as opposed to typing it. If you must type it, make sure that you distinguish between the letter O and the number 0 as well as the letter l and the number 1.
• If you are running on a non-supported (not debian) distro, your certificate store must be correct.
  
  • On some machines you can do:
        sudo update-ca-certificates
  • On others (ie fedora) you may need to link the existing cert file into /etc/ssl/certs:
        cd /etc/ssl/certs
        sudo ln -s /etc/pki/ca-trust/extracted/pem/tls-ca-bundle.pem ca-certificates.crt
• If all else fails, you can download the mjr file via https://rover.jriver.com/cgi-bin/restore.cgi (it's good for 2 weeks) and install the license manually, using the Linux terminal (as the USER running MC, and NOT as root or sudo).
  
  • Type: mediacenter25 /RestoreFromFile ~/Downloads/"Media Center25 Linux-YYYYYY.mjr"
        (replacing Media Center25 Linux-YYYYYY.mjr" above with your filename and replacing ~/Downloads with your path).

[Rizlaw]

Jim,

I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this.

In the above instructions you don't mention that when you make an "early" (pre-release) purchase and install of an upgrade to a Master License (from MC25 to MC26) neither the menus HELP > REGISTRATION INFO, nor the HELP > ABOUT MEDIA CENTER show the upgraded MC26 license info. They continue to show (in my case) the current MC 25.0.113 license info. Doing a license restore also causes you to lose 1 of the 20 yearly license restores (no biggie since you're always generous with license restores).

This situation leads most people, including me, to feel that something went wrong and that the upgrade license wasn't installed. However, as I recall, I had the same problem last year (posted about it, too) when I renewed MC24 to MC25. I believe, last year, you said that the new license info won't show up until the new version of MC xx is available and downloaded.  However, as I also recall, after you install the new MC 26 version you still have to expend another "restore" in order to register and make the new version of MC26 "permanent" even though it was done in the earlier MC25 version.