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Dr.Ames

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Installation JRiver in Arch Linux
« on: July 23, 2024, 02:04:26 pm »

Hi all, as an Endeavour (Arch) Linux user I need your help with the installation as I just bought the Update Master license and now want to get JRiver on my Linux somehow. Of course the installation from the “aur” with “yay jriver-media-center” is no problem, but you only get version 32.0.36. Would the license for version 33 be valid at all? The instructions here in the forum with “installJRMC - MC installer for Linux” are unfortunately too complicated for me. If someone could help me with what I need to do to install this in an Arch Linux, I would be very grateful.

One last question. I have just received the PayPal debit, but not yet the license - is that normal?

Thank you in advance
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Re: Installation JRiver in Arch Linux
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2024, 02:18:31 pm »

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Re: Installation JRiver in Arch Linux
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2024, 02:20:05 pm »

For the AUR package, it hasn't been updated in awhile as it's maintained by a third-party user. You should flag the package on the AUR and inform the maintainer there's an update and post a link to the 32.0.58 thread. Otherwise you'll have to download and edit the PKGBUILD file yourself for the latest 32.0.58 build available (and you'd have to either calculate the SHA256 hash of the .deb file or edit it to SKIP).

IMO, I don't agree with the meta (or generic) jriver-media-center package being used on the AUR as it makes no sense, mainly because each major version of Media Center is its own standalone app with specific licensing. The meta package there is updated for every major version, which for example if a user is using only MC31 and didn't purchase an upgrade to MC32 it'll automatically update to MC32 which will cause users problems. It's fine if you always use the latest major Media Center version but an issue for those who skip versions. It should be jriver-media-center31, jriver-media-center32, etc. In my Arch Linux virtual machine, this is what I do locally and set pacman to ignore the jriver-media-center32 package that doesn't exist on the AUR and manually update it myself.

At least that's my two cents on the matter.
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Re: Installation JRiver in Arch Linux
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2024, 02:31:59 pm »

That helped with the license - thank you very much for that.
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Re: Installation JRiver in Arch Linux
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2024, 04:28:48 pm »

installJRMC supports Arch, it builds a package locally, and installs it using a versioned package. However,  I haven't tested it out on Arch for a few years, so please turn debugging on if you need to and make a help post in the installJRMC thread.

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,137904.0.html
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Re: Installation JRiver in Arch Linux
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2024, 10:32:51 am »

Many thanks to you - the maintainer of the package has actually made the current version available in the “Aur” at my request. Many thanks to him - now Arch users won't be left out in the cold either.  ;D
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