LinuxMCE-0810 beta

This page outlines some information about the Beta, as well as outline any changes and bugfixes we are applying, just like we did with the alpha2 page.

The installation instructions found on the alpha2 page still apply:

Internet Installation

1. Install Kubuntu Intrepid desktop and update it. (download Kubuntu 8.10 desktop release from one of these: Northeastern University Mirror, USA, Mannheim University Mirror, Germany) Currently, only the 32bit version of LinuxMCE is available. Only download the i386 version of 8.10 Kubuntu, even if your system can support 64bit versions.
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).

EDIT: MAKE SURE YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION IS ON ETH0! (For linux Newbies ETH0 is probably the network card on your motherboard...or plug all NICs into a switch that has Internet access)

In other words, after installing Kubuntu:

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

DVD Installation

However, if you want to install the DVD, grab it via the torrent here.

Upon DVD boot, select LinuxMCE install. This will install a regular Kubuntu 810 system, with an additional button on the desktop to install LinuxMCE upon restart. Let Kubuntu's install run through, and after restart, login, and double click on the LinuxMCE icon. This will run the fullinstall.sh in /root/new-installer

The DVD installer per default does not create the initial MD image, as that creation takes a very long time, and most people probably prefer to give 810 a test, without the MDs. If you want to setup MDs, you have to manually run

/usr/pluto/bin/Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh

If you have problems running Diskless_CreateTBZ.sh, check this article.

If you then have problems netbooting your diskless media directors because you are receiving the error message "Diskless Setup Failed", check this article.

Update 2009-12-03 22558

• Build_Replacement_Package - freepbx (ubuntu/asterisk/freepbx) - Ticket #345 - Fixes the issue of installing new modules in FreePBX.
• pluto-asterisk (270.271) - Phone Lines fixing - asterisk (src/asterisk) - Ticket #374 - Fixes the issue during the creation procedure of a new phone lines via web LinuxMCE Admin. New MessageNet Provider support.
• pluto-avwizard (555,556) - Fixes #480 - Fails to identify untouched xorg.conf
• pluto-boot-scripts (234)
  • Cleanup in nvidia-config
  • MD WOL Problem fixed
• pluto-website-admin (220)
  • #469 IVR menue will now be regenerated every time a phone line is added.
  • #221 IR commands selection screen now has sort modes to make it easier to sift through all those commands.
  • #219 Various layout improvements to the wizard pages.
• pluto-xine-player (117,136) - changes for HDMI out

Upcoming fixes...

• pluto-std-plugins (116,135) - Changes to Telecom PlugIn to give proper audio switching behaviour when USB Conference microphones are used for the media director phone. This is of relevance to particular configurations that do not allow concurrent access to the soundcard (such as coax/optical settings). -tschak
• pluto-dce-router (154,155) - now depends on lmce-skins-uita
• pluto-system-database (211) - new lmce-skins-uita package definition
• lmce-skins-uita (727) - new skin

Bugfixes

Diskless setup failed

Should you receive the error "Diskless setup failed" when trying to netboot your MDs, see here Diskless_setup_failed_error_in_0810_beta

Mythtv-plugin fails to install

Install with apt-get install -f <name-of-package>