Comments on: Flash Media Server 3.5 on Ubuntu Linux

By: Sergio Oliveira Jr.

Sergio Oliveira Jr. — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:18:04 +0000

Please help. I cannot install any application. I create the application folder but inside the admin console it does not show up. I can only see vod and live. I can’t connect to my application from client. I get error #2044 NetConnection.Connect.Rejected. If I try to connect to live or vod, just for testing purposes, it works.

It must be something silly but I cannot figure it out.

Any help?

By: Markus Bertheau

Markus Bertheau — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:27:51 +0000

The solution for

./installFMS: line 172: ./fmsini: No such file or directory

ERROR: You are running the Adobe Flash Media Server installer on the wrong platform.

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

If apache doesn’t work, you need to create a compatibility symlink for the expat library. The command differs for 32 bit and 64 bit. See in the post.

I updated the post with this information.

By: juicepool

juicepool — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:05:53 +0000

I’m installing on 8.04 (Hardy Heron).
I followed the steps and keep getting this error:

./installFMS: line 172: ./fmsini: No such file or directory

ERROR: You are running the Adobe Flash Media Server installer on the wrong platform.

Please, any suggestions on where I went wrong?

Thanks,
JP

By: Markus Bertheau

Markus Bertheau — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:38:47 +0000

The download link works here, so either Adobe changed something for users outside germany, or there’s a local configuration issue on your side.

You can also use the ZIP file; it contains a file FlashMediaServer3.5.tar.gz which you can use instead of the direct download link in the post.

By: Luís Miguel Sequeira

Luís Miguel Sequeira — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:30:24 +0000

Seems that your link to download Adobe FMS for Linux is not pointing to anything valid — or, rather, Adobe might have changed the links :(

I’ve been trying to download it from the “regular” Downloads Home page, but although it gives a selection between Linux and Windows, I always get the very same ZIP file for Windows…

Any suggestions for an alternative link to FMS 3.5 for Linux are quite welcome!

By: Fenimore

Fenimore — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:01:48 +0000

I’m having the exact same problem as Adam and Nicole and receive this error:

./installFMS: line 172: ./fmsini: No such file or directory

ERROR: You are running the Adobe Flash Media Server installer
on the wrong platform.

I am also running Ubuntu 9.04. Please help me us.

By: Rmt

Rmt — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:44:02 +0000

My problem was I couldn’t access the files that FMS has created. However now, I give read permission to others, so my problem is solved. Here how I did this:

sudo gedit /opt/adobe/fms/conf/Server.xml

find 017 and change it to 012

(The mask is applied by subtracting the value from 777, see http://www.shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=230 for more information)

By: Rmt

Rmt — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:25:30 +0000

Hi, thanks for the patch but I need to change user name and/or user group to sth else. Do you know how to do this? or at least what is it possible to ask them while installing? thanks.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:12:24 +0000

I’m having the exact same problem as Adam and receive this error:

./installFMS: line 172: ./fmsini: No such file or directory

ERROR: You are running the Adobe Flash Media Server installer
on the wrong platform.

I am also running Ubuntu 9.04. Please help me too!

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:52:03 +0000

Unable to install FMS 3_5_1_r516 on Ubuntu 9.04 with the 3.5 patch, I receive the following error:

./installFMS: line 172: ./fmsini: No such file or directory

ERROR: You are running the Adobe Flash Media Server installer
on the wrong platform.

*PLEASE HELP!*

By: Javo

Javo — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:37:38 +0000

Thanks lygie! I’ve installed FMS 3.5 in my Sun V40Z running Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64 with your instructions! XD

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:01:54 +0000

I also cannot get this to work, FMS is now up to r516 and it complains about fmsini.

I’m on Ubuntu 8.0.4 64 bit.

# ./installFMS
./installFMS: line 172: ./fmsini: No such file or directory

ERROR: You are running the Adobe Flash Media Server installer
on the wrong platform.

By: Nitin

Nitin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:38:17 +0000

Thanks dude, it worked for me……

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:57:46 +0000

Excellent instructions! I used Ubuntu 8.10. The only difficulties for me were:

patch p1 is p number one, not p letter l (poor choice of font on my part )

I had to use synaptic package manager to download ‘libexpat1-dev’

and added the following link in /usr/lib

ln -s libexpat.so libexpat.so.0

Thanks again!

By: if

if — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:37:46 +0000

fms_3_5_1_r516,could not install
./fmsini:No such file or directory

By: lygie

lygie — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:02:45 +0000

@Dan Benson

you coukd try ldd ./httpd for the Apache2 binary in fms-directory

on my 64 bit system i had many libraries missing, perhaps you have similar problems.

i solved them by using
getlibs --ldconfig ./httpd

and then copied
libexpat.so.0 to /usr/lib32

I got libexpat.so.0 from a vmware2.0 server installation on a 64 bit system.

By: lygie

lygie — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:23:21 +0000

Hallo

I got fms working on 64 bit
these steps i already took with fms3

wget http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs-all.deb
sudo dpkg -i getlibs-all.deb
sudo getlibs --ldconfig ./fmsadmin
sudo getlibs --ldconfig ./fmscore
sudo getlibs --ldconfig ./fmsmaster
sudo getlibs --ldconfig ./fsmedge

additionally to these i took these steps with fms3.5

alien sane-backends-libs-1.0.19-12.fc10.x86_64.rpm
dpkg -i sane-backends-libs_1.0.19-13_amd64.deb
getlibs -l libnspr4.so.0d (copied from 32 bit-System)

By: Live aus der Marschrutka » Flash Media Server 3 on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy

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By: Markus Bertheau

Markus Bertheau — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:15:16 +0000

Well, thank you, Ben, for the hint to link the articles between them and for the very good question!

The only real difference is in how the process and file owner is determined. Check under which user the fms processes run – it should be the user fms. The files should also belong to this user and to the group fms. What’s also changed is the positions in the files that the patch changes. If when applying the patch you saw “hunk failed” messages, then not all changes have been applied. That can mean anything. If you have the possibility, you can uninstall fms and reinstall it with the 3.5 patch, to make sure.

I’ll now go and link the three patches with each other in the posts :)

Markus