Installing Flash Media Server 4.5 on Ubuntu 11.04

September 19, 2011 | Video | 4 Comments

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:

  1. Download the development server
  2. unzip FlashMediaDevServer_4_5_all.zip
  3. cd [path_to_unzipped_files]/linux
  4. tar -zxvf FlashMediaServer4.5_x64.tar.gz
  5. cd FMS_4_5_0_r297
  6. sudo ./installFMS
  7. follow the onscreen instructions
  8. point your browser to your machines IP address.

4 Responses to “Installing Flash Media Server 4.5 on Ubuntu 11.04”

  1. Freakuency says:

    Tried this on 11.10 and get this

    ERROR: Your architecture, ‘i686′, is not supported by the
    Adobe Flash Media Server installer.

    Any Ideas?

    • n8o says:

      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

  2. Cady says:

    tried it on ubuntu-11.10-server-amd64.. installation was successful, but nothing is working.
    even the uninstallFMS script is not working..
    please help

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