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Hendrik:
Heyo friends of the penguin,

We're currently experimenting with moving MC26 to a more modern base distribution - instead of the "oldoldstable" Debian Jessie, the idea would be to switch to Buster.

For that purpose, I've created an early test build. For testing purposes only available for AMD64 for now.
https://files.jriver.com/mediacenter/test/MediaCenter-26.0.16-amd64-buster-2.deb

Note, I have not updated the dependency information inside the .deb file, so it may install and then not start.

From early tests, it'll unfortunately not run on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, but it should theoretically run on newer Ubuntus (and 20.04 will be the new LTS). The main limiting factor here is requiring libc6-2.28 or newer.

We would appreciate any feedback if it runs on your distribution of choice, if it starts and crashes, or runs smoothly overall.
If it doesn't start, the info given on the command line which symbols are missing would be useful!

I would expect it to run on any distribution that was refreshed in the last 1-1.5 years. We're not sure if thats enough to cover the majority of our userbase yet, which is why we're slowly testing the waters here.

Ekpen:
Greetings:
Installed twice.
Failed to start.
It gave no error message.
George.

Awesome Donkey:
Debian 10.2 Buster: Installs, but segmentation fault on start
Ubuntu 19.10: Installs, but segmentation fault on start
Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia: Installs, but fails to start because it needs libc6-2.28; mediacenter26: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by mediacenter26)
Arch Linux: Installs, but segmentation fault on start

It doesn't give any info in the Terminal besides saying it segfaulted. Would probably need to run it in gdb to get any more info.

Overall, it's not too bad. Just gotta wait for Linux Mint 20 for it to work there, but honestly it's to be expected that it doesn't work on Linux Mint nor Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

EDIT: Here's what gdb spits out when it segfaults in Ubuntu...


--- Code: ---Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000055555679e963 in ?? ()
--- End code ---

And it spits out the same thing in Debian Buster...


--- Code: ---Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x000055555679e963 in ?? ()
--- End code ---

Hendrik:
I'm looking into the segfault, its proving to be weird so far, but i'll track it down.

It would've been nice if it worked on Ubuntu 18.04 (and thus Mint 19), but GLIBC 2.28 came out after that, and this is one dependency that we can't easily work around.

Awesome Donkey:
At least it's the same segfault on both Debian and Ubuntu. Also the same on Arch Linux as well.

Regarding Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Linux Mint 19, yeah, it'd be nice if it worked there but it's perfectly understandable if support for those needs to be dropped in order for MC26 to be moved to a modern base (and gain new features potentially). Once the rebase happens in the main release builds, I'll update the tutorial to make a note about Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Linux Mint 19 at the top of the post. I wonder what'd happen if you manually installed GLIBC 2.28 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or Linux Mint 19? Might be something for me to try out.

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