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When you click the download link above the deb file will download to your user folder. It's a lot like windows. A deb file is like an installer.

I'm curious, did your laptop come with windows?

I'm not really sure. If your read the comments that should give you the basics. If your using a laptop you should just use a desktop like MATE and run the program in graphic user interface mode. You're kind of doing it the hard way. The instructions in the OP are for a headless machine which is way ...

The's the configs locations. You have to use an editor like nano and you'll probably have to elevate your terminal.

The last part of the op tells you where your config file is. To edit it's config, the config file is located at /usr/ums/UMS.conf Also, it does run in the back ground. If you have a GUI (Desktop) then you can run the java app directly and take advantage of it's graphical front end. This guide is for...

Updated with correction listed in previous post.

@twistedLucidity - I honestly don't know if one is better than the other. I just use the real thing since I can and I don't care about GNU and all that licence crap. To me, it's all barriers to trade and knowledge. Thanks for the heads up on the ssh requirement. I added it to the apt-get lists. @Age...

This is an update and correction to my original post located here -> http://www.universalmediaserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1519 So, I've just built a truly badass system. I'm talking the whole nine yards, ECC Ram, Xeon Processor... you name it. I'm planning on using FreeNAS once I get t...

This was a bit of a pain, so I'm posting what I did here in case I need it in the future. For this tutorial, I'm installing UMS to /usr/ums simply to keep things simple. I'm not sure if I'm making some sort of Linux etiquette mistake. I've only been serious for about six months and I've only worked ...