FUPPES

So I’m testing media server apps on my desktop, which is running Ubuntu 9.10. Right now I’ve got FUPPES installed. The wiki is pretty good for getting started and there’s plenty of other resources on the interwebs. These were the instructions I used — I’m repeating them here, for the sake of completeness.

In the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get remove autoconf automake gettext

to clean your system of old programs fuppes uses, and delete your /home/username/fuppes/ directory, if it exists. Now, with a clean slate, in the terminal:

$ sudo apt-get update

Install your codecs:

$ sudo apt-get install ffmpeg build-essential \
libavutil-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev \
subversion libtool \
libsqlite3-dev libpcre3-dev libxml2-dev libpcre3-dev pkg-config

Reinstall autoconf, automake and gettext:

$ sudo apt-get install autoconf automake gettext

Get the latest release of fuppes:

$ svn co https://fuppes.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fuppes/trunk fuppes
$ cd fuppes
$ autoreconf -vfi
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install
$ ldconfig

Now run fuppes once:

$ fuppes

and then quit. This will create the config file for you: ~/.fuppes/fuppes.cfg. Modify this file according to your needs, following the instructions in the wiki. Re-fun fuppes as root in the terminal. Then hit r and enter — this will tell it to look through the directories you specified in the config file and build the database.

There’s also a good article on switching to using fuppesd in the wiki: startup with init.d.

It’s working out fairly well so far, and it includes basic DLNA support so I can test with my PS3. One issue I’m having with this setup: rebuilding/updating the database. I changed the shared directories configured in the fuppes.cfg file but neither an update nor a rebuild of the database had any effect — I’m still seeing the old shared directory when I test. But I haven’t had a chance to really play around with it yet, so more on this later.

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