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Installing MiniDLNA on Arch Linux

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I’ve been moving round Linux distributions recently and currently find myself using (and rather enjoying) Arch Linux.

As my article on installing MiniDLNA on Ubuntu is so far my post popular, I though I’d document how I installed and configured it on Arch.

There is a MiniDLNA package for Arch in the community reposotory, meaning it can be installed very easily via Pacman (the following commands have been run as root, add sudo to the beginning of them if you have installed and configured it)

pacman -S minidlna

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Installing MiniDLNA on Ubuntu Server

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When setting up my Ubuntu server I wanted it to be able to stream my media via UPnP/DLNA, I looked at a few solutions including MediaTomb and uShare, however I decided to go with MiniDLNA based on the fact that it was lightweight (my server isn’t the most powerful) and that I have a Western Digital TV Live which plays pretty much any file format meaning I didn’t need the server to transcode my media, MiniDLNA will quite happily however stream media to my other devices, like MP3′s and AVI’s (XviD/AC3) to my Xbox 360.

Installing MiniDLNA is available in the default repositories if you are running Ubuntu 11.10 and it can be installed by running the command

sudo apt-get install minidlna

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