Installing Medusa on Ubuntu Server

Medusa is a media server that allows you to manage and stream your media files to various devices. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Medusa on Ubuntu Server Latest version.

Prerequisites

• A server running Ubuntu Server Latest version.
• A user account with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Install Dependencies

Before installing Medusa, we need to install some dependencies. Open the terminal and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install git-core python2.7 python-pip python-dev build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev sqlite3

This will install necessary packages for Medusa to work.

Step 2: Clone the Medusa Repository

In order to install Medusa, we need to clone the Medusa repository. In the terminal, run the following command:

sudo git clone https://github.com/pymedusa/Medusa.git /opt/medusa

This will create a new directory named "medusa" in /opt/ directory.

Step 3: Install Medusa

After cloning the repository, we can install Medusa by running the following command:

cd /opt/medusa
sudo python2.7 setup.py install

This will install Medusa and its dependencies.

Step 4: Configure Medusa

Next, we need to configure Medusa. We need to create a new user for Medusa and set up the necessary directories.

Create a new user with the following command:

sudo adduser medusa

Next, we need to create directories for Medusa:

sudo mkdir /var/lib/medusa
sudo mkdir /var/log/medusa

Change the ownership of these directories to the medusa user:

sudo chown -R medusa:medusa /var/lib/medusa
sudo chown -R medusa:medusa /var/log/medusa

Step 5: Start Medusa

Now we can start Medusa by running the following command:

sudo -u medusa medusa --nolaunch

This will start Medusa in the foreground.

Optional Step: Configure Medusa as a Systemd Service

To run Medusa as a service, we need to create a systemd unit file.

Create a new file /etc/systemd/system/medusa.service with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Medusa
After=network.target

[Service]
User=medusa
Group=medusa
WorkingDirectory=/opt/medusa
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python2.7 /opt/medusa/Medusa.py --daemon --pidfile /run/medusa.pid
ExecStop=/bin/kill -15 $MAINPID
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Reload systemd and start the Medusa service:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start medusa

Now, Medusa will start on boot and can be managed with systemctl commands.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Medusa on Ubuntu Server Latest version. With Medusa, you can manage and stream media files to various devices in your network.