How to Install Gerbera on Fedora Server Latest

Gerbera is a free, open-source media server software designed to allow users to stream multimedia files over a network. This tutorial will describe the steps to install Gerbera on Fedora Server.

Prerequisites

Before installing Gerbera, ensure that the following prerequisites are met:

A running instance of Fedora Server
The user must have sudo privileges

Step 1: Install Git and dependencies

First, update your package index and install Git and required dependencies:

sudo dnf update -y
sudo dnf install -y git gcc cmake make libupnp-devel expat-devel libsqlite3x-devel ffmpeg-devel libcurl-devel ffmpegthumbnailer-devel libmatroska-devel libexif-devel libmp4v2-devel boost-devel

Step 2: Clone the Gerbera Repository

After installing Git, clone the Gerbera repository from GitHub using the following command:

sudo git clone https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera.git /opt/gerbera

Step 3: Build and Install Gerbera

Navigate to the Gerbera directory and create a build directory using the following commands:

cd /opt/gerbera
sudo mkdir build
cd build

Next, run cmake to generate a Makefile for Gerbera. This will build Gerbera and its dependencies.

sudo cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DLIB_SUFFIX=64 -DWITH_JS_RENDERER=0 -DWITH_MAGIC=1 ..
sudo make
sudo make install

Step 4: Configure Gerbera

Before using Gerbera, you need to create a configuration file. First, create a directory for Gerbera to store its configuration:

sudo mkdir /etc/gerbera

Next, create the gerbera.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/gerbera/gerbera.conf

Add the following lines to the gerbera.conf file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <import hidden-files="no">/path/to/your/media/folder/</import>
</config>

Replace /path/to/your/media/folder/ with the path to the directory containing your media files.

Save and close the file.

Step 5: Start Gerbera

To start Gerbera, run the following command:

sudo systemctl start gerbera.service

To enable Gerbera to start automatically after a system reboot, run the following command:

sudo systemctl enable gerbera.service

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have demonstrated how to install Gerbera on Fedora Server Latest from the Gerbera.io website. You can now configure Gerbera to stream your media files over a network.