LinuxMCE-0810 alpha1

LinuxMCE-0810-alpha1 is a test release build from the sources available in the LinuxMCE-0810 branch of SVN. It is missing several components of which the sources are not publicly available.

This page is superseeded by LinuxMCE-0810 alpha2

Installation

1. Install Kubuntu Intrepid, update it and enable the restricted (video) drivers if needed. (download Kubuntu 8.10 release)
2. Run aptitude update and aptitude dist-upgrade to get the latest Kubuntu updates.
3. Grab the latest installer script from here, unpack them and change into the freshly created new-installer directory.
4. Run the following scripts (as root, in order): pre-install-from-repo.sh, mce-install.sh, post-install.sh.
5. Reboot, wait for the activity to stop (see progress on console 8).

In other words, after installing Kubuntu and upgrading it etcetera:

sudo su - #This might ask for the password you specified earlier during the install of kubuntu.
wget -c http://deb.linuxmce.org/ubuntu/new-installer-alpha1.tar.bz2
tar xvf new-installer-alpha1.tar.bz2
cd new-installer
./pre-install-from-repo.sh
./mce-install.sh
./post-install.sh
reboot

Setup Diskless MD

The following steps outline what is currently needed on an nVidia based MD.

1. On core from a terminal run sudo /usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_BuildDefaultImage.sh
2. Boot MD
3. Rundiskless setup fails, but the device gets created
4. Change md to i386 in webadmin -> rebuild image
5. On the core
   1. Set a password for root on MD
      1. chroot /usr/pluto/diskless/<##>
      2. run passwd.... enter password for root
6. On MD Switch to a terminal session>
   1. Login to MD as root
   2. apt-get install nvidia-glx-177
7. From core copy valid xorg.conf from etc/X11 to /usr/pluto/diskless/##/etc/X11
8. Reboot MD. Now, the AV Wizard should come up
9. After the AV Wizard it takes a longer time to launch devices. No not need to reboot.

Note

If you don't happen to have a running xorg.conf, copy over the existing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.pluto-avwizard to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

You have to remove a single line RgbPath from the xorg.conf file, and change the line

driver nv

to

driver nvidia

Known Problems

Upgrading pluto-storage-devices

If apt-get upgrade does cause problems with pluto-boot-scripts, do the following

dpkg -r --force-all pluto-storage-devices
apt-get install pluto-storage-devices
apt-get upgrade

VDR Installation

VDR does not yet install a working setup. Follow VDR Manual Install regarding configuration files.

VDR and sqlCVS Update

A sqlCVS update will reset the selection from VDR back to MythTV. Re-running the Setup wizard and re-selecting VDR rectifies this glitch.

For other older known problems please look at LinuxMCE-0810_alpha0

Updates

20081206 (alpha-1.1)

• pluto-vdr_2.0.0.44.0812060810
• pluto-src-vdr_2.0.0.44.0812060810
• pluto-website-admin_2.0.0.44.0812060810

20081214 (alpha-1.2)

• pluto-boot-scripts_2.0.0.44.0812140810
• pluto-website-admin_2.0.0.44.0812140810
• pluto-vdr_2.0.0.44.0812140810
• pluto-src-vdr_2.0.0.44.0812140810

20081221 (alpha-1.3)

• lirc-pluto_0.1.1
• pluto-skins-basic_2.0.0.44.0812210810
• pluto-website-admin_2.0.0.44.0812210810
• pluto-boot-scripts_2.0.0.44.0812210810

20081228 (alpha-1.4)

• asterisk-pluto_1.4.10-4
• pluto-std-plugins_2.0.0.44.0812280810
• pluto-storage-devices_2.0.0.44.0812280810
• pluto-website-admin_2.0.0.44.0812280810
• pluto-raid-tools_2.0.0.44.0812280810
• pluto-asterisk_2.0.0.44.0812280810
• pluto-avwizard-src_2.0.0.44.0812280810
• pluto-avwizard_2.0.0.44.0812280810
• pluto-boot-scripts_2.0.0.44.0812280810
• pluto-capture-card-scripts_2.0.0.44.0812280810
• pluto-dhcpd-plugin_2.0.0.44.0812280810
• mce-diskless-tools-src_2.0.0.44.0812280810
• mce-diskless-tools_2.0.0.44.0812280810

20090104 (alpha-1.5)

• libxine1-xvdr_1.0.1-5+lmce1
• libxineliboutput-fbfe_1.0.1-5+lmce1
• libxineliboutput-sxfe_1.0.1-5+lmce1
• vdr-plugin-xineliboutput_1.0.1-5+lmce1
• xineliboutput-fbfe_1.0.1-5+lmce1
• xineliboutput-sxfe_1.0.1-5+lmce1
• pluto-website-admin_2.0.0.44.0901040810

20090111 (alpha-1.6)

• pluto-website-admin_2.0.0.44.0901110810
• pluto-updatemedia_2.0.0.44.0901110810 #72 --posde
• pluto-slim-server-streamer_2.0.0.44.0901110810 #77 --posde
• pluto-boot-scripts_2.0.0.44.0901110810 #80 --posde

20090118 (upcoming)

• sql2cpp run integration posde [1]

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