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Revision as of 06:46, 29 March 2007

Important

Read the [[Known_Issues|Known Issues page first. There are some warnings to Ubuntu users who have already modified their Ubuntu installation or customized their .conf files that LinuxMCE will override their changes.

Getting help

In addition to the usual community options like forums, for the moment a few volunteers have agreed to provide live tech support via Yahoo/Skype to identify common installation problems so they can be fixed in the next release.

Reading before installing LinuxMCE

Before installing LinuxMCE, I suggest reading What to expect which says exactly what sequences and equipment was used to setup my whole home media + automation system as shown in the demo video, and warns what are the pitfalls you may run into.

Also read:

The Detailed step-by-step instructions for installing LinuxMCE which has step-by-step instructions on installing Ubuntu and LinuxMCE. Then the short Architecture Intro which explains what pc's you'll need to install software on and how they all work together. Then there's a Quick Start Guide which explains how to set the video and audio settings using the AV Wizard, and to add devices to LinuxMCE with the Setup Wizard. The Usage Intro is a quick primer on how to use LinuxMCE once it's installed.

LinuxMCE is a huge program with lots of features that you won't even notice right away, and the wiki already has a ton of pages which I imported from existing sources when I launched LinuxMCE, such as the original User's Manual and Programmer's Guide. I found most of these docs weren't well organized and some of the data isn't up to date. But it's a wiki and all pages are open for editing, so hopefully this will improve.

Getting the CD's

As explained in the Installation Guide You need 2 cd's to install LinuxMCE, which you can get here:

1) Ubuntu 6.10 live cd. For now Linux MCE can only be installed on top of the Ubuntu 6.10 distribution of Linux, which is available here.

2) The LinuxMCE install cd, which is available on these Mirrors.

The LinuxMCE installer

Once you have already burned the LinuxMCE install cd, and finished installing Ubuntu 6.10, here is the installer application you run from within Ubuntu to install LinuxMCE:

http://linuxmce.com/images/download_button.gif

Getting the source code

I have setup an auto-builder that compiles everything, all 12 million lines and hundreds of packages. But it requires lots of stuff to be just right. I'm working on docs and a setup script that will allow other users to setup their own build environments, and will post it together with all the source code and the source graphics, databases, and other pieces within a few days.