Installing Flash Media Server 4.5 on Ubuntu 11.04
A few weeks ago FMS 4.5 was released. While reading through the system requirements it stated once again that it only supported running on Windows, Redhat and CentOS. Unfortunately for me I only develop on a mac and a ubuntu machine. In the past I had to use a script from this blog post to get FMS 3.5 installed.
So I decided to give it a try. To see if I could in fact get the server up and running on my ubuntu machine. To my surprise, the standard install scripts worked flawlessly.
Here are the steps:
- Download the development server
- unzip FlashMediaDevServer_4_5_all.zip
- cd [path_to_unzipped_files]/linux
- tar -zxvf FlashMediaServer4.5_x64.tar.gz
- cd FMS_4_5_0_r297
- sudo ./installFMS
- follow the onscreen instructions
- point your browser to your machines IP address.
Tried this on 11.10 and get this
ERROR: Your architecture, ‘i686′, is not supported by the
Adobe Flash Media Server installer.
Any Ideas?
the flash media server requires x86_64 os. Currently you are running i686.
if you type this in at the terminal it’ll tell you what architecture your are running.
uname -a
tried it on ubuntu-11.10-server-amd64.. installation was successful, but nothing is working.
even the uninstallFMS script is not working..
please help
Do you have any more details about the errors ?
After a really long and frustrating 24hrs trying to get Red5 to serve our (old) FLVs, then another long while trying to get videowhisper confiugred I finally decided to try the Adobe FMS. Being an Ubuntu guy, I wasn’t too pleased to see they didn’t support it – but I’m here to tell you it didn’t take much.
I did the following:
1) Install Ubuntu 11.10 64bit
2) Get all updates (including kernel)
3) Download FlashMediaDevServer_4_5_all.zip into my home directory
4) Execute the following commands:
sudo apt-get install unzip libcap-dev libcap-ng-dev libnspr4
unzip FlashMediaDevServer_4_5_all.zip
cd linux/
tar xzf FlashMediaServer4.5_x64.tar.gz
cd FMS_4_5_0_r297/
sudo ./installFMS
5) Go through the wizard (accepting the defaults)
6) Put my FLVs into /opt/adobe/fms/applications/vod/media/
Open a browser to the admin console (http://yourserverorip/) and watch the fanciness unfold.
I hate paying for software. But after struggling with Red5 and videowhisper for quite a while the $1k that Adobe wants doesn’t seem that bad after having a solution in hand after only 8min.
If someone from the Red5 or videowhisper community wants to argue the virtue of their system and point out my error, I’d happily look the fool (and simultaneously save $1k in Adobe licensing).
joeselling09 at gmail dot com