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Adding the MediaCenter repo manually. Only for Debian and Ubuntu.
bob:
MC is built on Debian (bullseye currently) with the XFCE desktop. That's the most lightweight and stable distribution as far as we are concerned.
The reason for building on this particular combination is that it still contains every library we need but is forward compatible with all versions of ubuntu which is totally based on debian and most of the older TLS distros that are still being supported.
Also the libraries are generic enough to work on non-debian distributions in general. The certificates.crt for SSL can be in different places in non-debian distributions so we handle that with a local copy that can be used if necessary.
If there are particular libraries we need, we add custom builds of them in the package.
Things to watch for are the noveau X server. That doesn't play at all with MC so alert for NVidia users.
Also wayland seems to cause issues we can't track down yet. We are using pretty basic X calls but the translation layer in wayland is less than perfect.
Library Eye:
I tried a fresh install on a 24.10 Kubuntu system. After completing the previous steps, I followed the Oracular-specific instructions which are notably different than all other entries above
sudo curl http://dist.jriver.com/latest/mediacenter/mediacenteroracular.source -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mediacenteroracularlatest.source
and got a curl error
So then I ran the Noble command, which had previously worked just fine for me on another 24.10 installation back before those Oracular-specific instructions were posted and it succeeded.
bob:
--- Quote from: Library Eye on April 27, 2025, 01:27:39 pm ---I tried a fresh install on a 24.10 Kubuntu system. After completing the previous steps, I followed the Oracular-specific instructions which are notably different than all other entries above
sudo curl http://dist.jriver.com/latest/mediacenter/mediacenteroracular.source -o /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mediacenteroracularlatest.source
and got a curl error
So then I ran the Noble command, which had previously worked just fine for me on another 24.10 installation back before those Oracular-specific instructions were posted and it succeeded.
--- End quote ---
I tried that and worked just fine. Not sure why you are having an issue with it.
syndromeofadown:
--- Quote ---and got a curl error
--- End quote ---
Do you have curl installed? It does not come with Kubuntu.
sudo apt install curl
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