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[drmimosa]

I just installed Arch Linux on an old MSI laptop from 2009. JRiver installed without a hitch, and everything works so far. Audio, soundcards, fonts, everything seems to just work. Impressive development here!

A few notes from the install:

I'm new to Arch Linux, and fairly novice at Linux in general. I built the OS from a USB boot stick using these helpful Youtube tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5j5oQpij1Q .

The biggest problem I had was tracking down a driver for my legacy graphics card, but once I identified the right package everything worked with the XFCE and MATE GUI's.

I installed Trizen package manager to access the Arch User Repository, AUR. This allowed me to install JRiver using the command:

Trizen -S JRiver

At first, video didn't work. Trizen automatically pulled many dependencies during the JRiver install, but not enough to play video codecs. I installed VLC player, which then installed a number of dependencies for video codecs.

After the VLC install and a reboot, JRiver plays all video without problems.

Also, as a side note: Panel worked in Firefox immediately for music, video, and images. That's also really impressive. I don't need any functionality on the machine other than media playback. With a barebones Linux installation and a web browser, you have a functioning JRiver media player with Panel.

That's it. Great job on the Linux port here, I was expecting a lot more work to get the program to run.

[Awesome Donkey]

Welcome to Arch Linux and enjoy! Always glad to see a Arch Linux install success story.

[drmimosa]

Thank you! It was a fun project, and I'm surprised how functional and fast Linux is now. I last attempted this ten years ago, back then it seemed that every installation had missing dependencies or, worse, broke the system.

Just as a side note, I'm keeping my Arch Linux build on a laptop. For a home server install I needed a more packaged system from the start, so I found a build of Arch Linux called ArcoLinux. So far so good, the original build from the Arch Wiki was helpful to get my knowledge up to snuff...but it is also nice to start with a polished build!

[michaeljalves]

How did you add the mediacenter repository with arch's pacman?

[Awesome Donkey]

You can't, Arch Linux uses pacman which isn't compatible with apt or the JRiver repos.

You'll have to install the jriver-media-center24 package from the AUR (I'd recommend using a AUR helper like trizen to do it). For example if you install trizen, just use trizen -s jriver-media-center24 from a Terminal window.

The MC24 page on the AUR is found here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jriver-media-center24

[michaeljalves]

Please disregard. I found the discussion using AUR and got it installed. Working great with 24.0.0.55.