{"id":8787,"date":"2022-03-20T22:58:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T03:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=8787"},"modified":"2024-02-12T18:45:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T23:45:25","slug":"building-gerbera-on-fedora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=8787","title":{"rendered":"Building Gerbera on Fedora"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a great deal of documentation available for building Gerbera from source<\/a> on a variety of Linux flavors. Unfortunately, Fedora isn’t one of those (and the package names don’t exactly match up to let you replace “apt-get” with “yum” and be done). So I am quickly documenting the process we followed to build Gerbera from source.<\/p>\n

The Fedora build of Gerbera has the binaries in \/usr\/bin and the manual build places the gerbera binary in \/usr\/local\/bin — the build updates the unit file to reflect this change, but this means you want to back up any customizations you’ve made to the unit file before<\/em> running “make install”.<\/p>\n

You need the build system — cmake, g++, etc and the devel packages from the following table as required by your build options<\/p>\n

Additional packages that we needed to install: automake, autoconf, libtool<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Library<\/strong><\/td>\nFedora Package<\/strong><\/td>\nRequired?<\/strong><\/td>\nNote<\/strong><\/td>\nCompile-time option<\/strong><\/td>\nDefault<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libpupnp<\/td>\nlibupnp-devel<\/td>\nXOR libnpupnp<\/td>\npupnp<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libnpupnp<\/td>\nBuild from source (if needed)<\/a><\/td>\nXOR libupnp<\/td>\nI was only able to locate this as a source, not available from Fedora repos<\/td>\nWITH_NPUPNP<\/td>\nDisabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libuuid<\/td>\nlibuuid-devel<\/td>\nRequired<\/td>\nNot required on *BSD<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
pugixml<\/td>\npugixml-devel<\/td>\nRequired<\/td>\nXML file and data support<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libiconv<\/td>\nglibc-headers<\/td>\nRequired<\/td>\nCharset conversion<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
sqlite3<\/td>\nsqlite-devel<\/td>\nRequired<\/td>\nDatabase storage<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
zlib<\/td>\nzlib-devel<\/td>\nRequired<\/td>\nData compression<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
fmtlib<\/td>\nfmt-devel<\/td>\nRequired<\/td>\nFast string formatting<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
spdlog<\/td>\nspdlog-devel<\/td>\nRequired<\/td>\nRuntime logging<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
duktape<\/td>\nduktape-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nScripting Support<\/td>\nWITH_JS<\/td>\nEnabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
mysql<\/td>\nmariadb-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nAlternate database storage<\/td>\nWITH_MYSQL<\/td>\nDisabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
curl<\/td>\nlibcurl-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nEnables web services<\/td>\nWITH_CURL<\/td>\nEnabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
taglib<\/td>\ntaglib-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nAudio tag support<\/td>\nWITH_TAGLIB<\/td>\nEnabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libmagic<\/td>\nfile-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nFile type detection<\/td>\nWITH_MAGIC<\/td>\nEnabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libmatroska<\/td>\nlibmatroska-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nMKV metadata required for MKV<\/td>\nWITH_MATROSKA<\/td>\nEnabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libebml<\/td>\nlibebml-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nMKV metadata required for MKV<\/td>\nWITH_MATROSKA<\/td>\nEnabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ffmpeg\/libav<\/td>\nffmpeg-free-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nFile metadata<\/td>\nWITH_AVCODEC<\/td>\nDisabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libexif<\/td>\nlibexif-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nJPEG Exif metadata<\/td>\nWITH_EXIF<\/td>\nEnabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libexiv2<\/td>\nexiv2-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nExif, IPTC, XMP metadata<\/td>\nWITH_EXIV2<\/td>\nDisabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
lastfmlib<\/td>\nliblastfm-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nEnables scrobbling<\/td>\nWITH_LASTFM<\/td>\nDisabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ffmpegthumbnailer<\/td>\nffmpegthumbnailer-devel<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nGenerate video thumbnails<\/td>\nWITH_FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER<\/td>\nDisabled<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
inotify<\/td>\nglibc-headers<\/td>\nOptional<\/td>\nEfficient file monitoring<\/td>\nWITH_INOTIFY<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libavformat<\/td>\nlibavformat-free-devel<\/td>\nRequired for 2.0<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libavutil<\/td>\nlibavutil-free-devel<\/td>\nRequired for 2.0<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
libavcodec<\/td>\nlibavcodec-free-devel<\/td>\nRequired for 2.0<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Then follow the generalized instructions — cd into the folder where you want to run the build and run (customizing the cmake line as you wish):<\/p>\n

git<\/span> clone<\/span> https<\/span>:<\/span>\/\/<\/span>github<\/span>.<\/span>com<\/span>\/<\/span>gerbera<\/span>\/<\/span>gerbera<\/span>.<\/span>git<\/span>\r\nmkdir<\/span> build<\/span>\r\ncd<\/span> build<\/span>\r\ncmake ..\/gerbera -DWITH_MAGIC=1 -DWITH_MYSQL=1 -DWITH_CURL=1 -DWITH_INOTIFY=1 -DWITH_JS=1 -DWITH_TAGLIB=1 -DWITH_AVCODEC=1 -DWITH_FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER=0 -DWITH_EXIF=1 -DWITH_EXIV2=1 -DWITH_SYSTEMD=1 -DWITH_LASTFM=0 -DWITH_DEBUG=1\r\nmake<\/span> -<\/span>j4<\/span>\r\nsudo<\/span> make<\/span> install<\/span><\/pre>\n
As with the Gerbera binary, the Fedora build places the web content in \/usr\/share\/gerbera and the manual build places the web content into \/usr\/local\/share\/gerbera — yes, you can change the paths in the build, and I’m sure you can clue Gerbera into the new web file location. I opted for the quick\/easy\/lazy solution of running<\/p>\n
mv \/usr\/share\/gerbera \/usr\/share\/gerbera\/old\r\nln -s \/usr\/local\/share\/gerbera \/usr\/share\/<\/pre>\n
To symlink the location my config thinks<\/em> the web components should be located to the new files.<\/p>\n
On the first start of Gerbera, SQL scripts may be run to update the database — don’t stop or kill the service during this process there’s no checkpoint restart of the upgrade process. We backed up \/etc\/gerbera\/gerbera.db prior to starting our Gerbera installation. We’ve also wiped the database files to start from scratch and test changes that impacted how items are ingested into the database.<\/p>\n
Fin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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