How to install Logitech Media Server on CentOS 6.3

How to install Logitech Media Server on CentOS 6.3

Logitech Media Server is a powerful tool to turn your Linux into a multimedia server that serves music and other media to the devices connected to the same network. This tutorial is going to show you how we install Logitech Media Server on a CentOS 6.3 server. I assume you have installed CentOS 6.3.

media-server

A. Update CentOS

yum update -y

B. Installed some required packages

yum install -y perl-Time-HiRes perl-CGI glibc.i686

C. Download Logitech Media Server.

Go to this website and select the rpm package.

D. Install the package

yum localinstall -y logitechmediaserver-*.noarch.rpm
cd /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl
ln -s /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/Slim Slim

E. Open the firewall ports

lokkit -p 3483:tcp
lokkit -p 3483:udp
lokkit -p 9000:tcp
lokkit -p 9090:tcp

F. Start the Logitech Media Server

chkconfig squeezeboxserver on
service squeezeboxserver restart

Source:

http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-run-a-logitech-media-server-on-centos-6.3