MiniDLNA missing from Ubuntu 14.10

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I noticed that MiniDLNA was deleted from 14.04 - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/minidlna due to "lp #1253071, FTBFS, RC buggy, removed from Debian testing, not ported to libav9" which is quite vain explanation in my option.

Is there a plan to release package for 14.04 or MiniDLNA will not be supported anymore?

Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

minidlna (ReadyMedia) 1.1.2 does support libav9

[Hadmut Danisch (hadmut)]

Dropping minidlna is especially bad since there is no proper replacement. ushare is rather buggy.

[Rory Jaffe (rsjaffe)]

And I suspect it didn't 'make' because gettext is a dependency that is not tested in configure. after sudo apt-get install gettext, make succeeds.

[taco (halstonc)]

Workaround provided by Clickbg in the Ubuntu Forums. I had to install libid3tag0 as well (edit below).

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2217669&p=12992117#post12992117

  wget http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/minidlna/minidlna_1.0.21+dfsg-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/liba/libav/libavformat53_0.8.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb
  wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/liba/libav/libavcodec53_0.8.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb
  wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/liba/libav/libavutil51_0.8.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb

  sudo dpkg -i libavutil51_0.8.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb
  sudo dpkg -i libavcodec53_0.8.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb
  sudo dpkg -i libavformat53_0.8.10-0ubuntu0.12.04.1_amd64.deb
  sudo apt-get install libid3tag0
  sudo dpkg -i minidlna_1.0.21+dfsg-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb

[Alfredo Rubio (alfredx8)]

Have you tried ums (Universal Media Server)?

[Dagaz (dagaz-r)]

I tested ums yesterday and today. Its .... hmmmm .... OK. At least for the Tablet.

The problem is the reding thing. I do not want my videos to be recoded for my TV. Then i really want a full HD with full quality.

Additionally some devices seems to have a problem that every file is shown as an mpeg file. Also with minidlna I can predict what file will or won't be hardware decoded on my tablet.

In my opinion ums is not really a real alternative to minidlna but a good extra to have.

[Thanos Kyritsis (djart)]

I've created a PPA to provide a cleaner workaround and a much fresher minidlna version (1.1.2).

All thanks must go to Debian packaging work already maintained by Benoît Knecht at https://gitorious.org/debian-pkg/minidlna (and of course the upstream developer). I re-used those sources as they are, just added the ppa1 version and fed it to Launchpad.

To install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:djart/minidlna
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install minidlna

I hope you'll find it useful, version 1.1.2 is much better than 1.0.24. It would also be nice if an Ubuntu developer picks it up and adds it back to the official 14.04 repo.

[Maarten Jacobs (maarten256)]

Great Thanos, your PPA certainly saved me a bit of a headache.

[Filiprino (filiprino)]

I wonder why they took minidlna out of the repository.
Same goes for binaries like findkeyboard.

[Thanos Kyritsis (djart)]

MiniDLNA is back in Debian Sid (unstable). Is there anything we can do to re-sync it back in 14.04 or at least for 14.10 ?

See https://packages.debian.org/sid/minidlna and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=717131 and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711234

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

I requested a sync, so it's sitting in the NEW queue for Utopic. It won't go into Trusty without a backport. Please use the requestbackport tool from ubuntu-dev-tools to request one once minidlna is in Utopic.

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

minidlna 1.1.2+dfsg-1 is now in Utopic.

[Rory Jaffe (rsjaffe)]

Minidlna is now in Trusty

[Rory Jaffe (rsjaffe)]

apt-cache show minidlna
----------------------------------------------------
Package: minidlna
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 471
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Benoît Knecht <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.1.2+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1
Depends: adduser, initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.3), lsb-base, libavformat54 (>= 6:9.1-1), libavutil52 (>= 6:9.1-1), libc6 (>= 2.15), libexif12, libflac8 (>= 1.3.0), libid3tag0 (>= 0.15.1b), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libogg0 (>= 1.0rc3), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libvorbis0a (>= 1.1.2)
Filename: pool/universe/m/minidlna/minidlna_1.1.2+dfsg-1~ubuntu14.04.1_amd64.deb

[Vdolosa (vdolosa)]

MiniDLNA is also missing in ARMHF.

[Arul (aselvan)]

@Rory, are you sure minidlna is now available in Trusty? or you installed it from ppa:djart/minidlna ?

Here is how mine looks...

root@gorilla:~# apt-cache show minidlna
N: Unable to locate package minidlna
E: No packages found

root@gorilla:~# apt-get install minidlna
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package minidlna

[Rory Jaffe (rsjaffe)]

Yes. It is in Trusty (backports). https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/minidlna

Have you enabled the backports repo?

[Sezer Yalcin (sy-y)]

I don't see this coming through trusty-backports. Installed manually.

[brasil (aldenir73)]

dependence is not satisfiable: libavformat-extra-53

[Sebastián Vanrell (srvanrell)]

will it be backported again? there are newer versions of minidlna on following ubuntu releases