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This document will guide you though the process of installing and configuring MediaCenter for Linux. You are advised to read through the document before installing MediaCenter. It assumes some basic knowledge of Linux in general and familiarity working from a terminal.

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Before you begin

MediaCenter is in beta and is under heavy development. As such, it may not work as expected. Although it is considered to be stable enough for regular use it may still show unexpected behavior such as crashes or random refusals to play a track. Please make sure you read through the list of Outstanding issues.

It is strongly advised to make regular backups of your media. There have been no reports of MediaCenter for Linux messing up tags or otherwise corrupting files, but it is still in beta - consider yourself warned. You can also configure MediaCenter to not update tags at all, it will only read from your files but that does not negate the fact that you should always have backups.

It is also a good idea to read through the sticky threads on the forums, too.

System requirements

MediaCenter is being developed on Debian Wheezy 32-bit, for i386 architecture. It will run on multiarch distributions (64-bit with 32-bit libraries) once the proper 32-bit dependencies are satisfied. See DEPENDENCIES.

MediaCenter requires a CPU that supports SSE2. This means the CPU needs to be from around 2002 or newer.

Hardware Requirements (Minimum)

• Intel or AMD x86 Compatible CPU with SSE2
• 2GB RAM
• 300MB free hard drive space for installation (excluding space for digital media)
• Sound device that works with ALSA
• Internet connection (recommended)

Software Requirements

• Debian Wheezy or a similar distribution based on Debian
• Working Xorg - MediaCenter is known to work on XFCE 4.x, Unity and KDE 4.x.
• Working ALSA sound system

MediaCenter is known to work on recent versions of OpenSuse, Fedora and on Arch Linux. However, this considered experimental and it is unsupported. If you are, or intent to run MediaCenter on an unsupported distribution, you are strongly encouraged to share your experience on Interact.

Limitations

Although Linux can run on architectures other than x86 (like ARM or PowerPC for instance), MediaCenter will not run on architectures other than i386 or x86_64.

Dependencies

To succesfully install MediaCenter, you need to make sure your system has the following libraries installed.