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Mar 11, 2006

Installing libupnp on Linux

Most Linux UPnP media servers require the libupnp library. However, the install script for libupnp is incomplete and not well documented, so here are some more complete install steps.

Although libupnp-1.3.1 was just released, I couldn't get it to compile, so I use the older libupnp-1.2.1a version. First, untar and compile the source:

tar -xzvf libupnp-1.2.1a.tar.gz
cd libupnp-1.2.1a/upnp
make

Second, become root and run the install script:

cd libupnp-1.2.1a/upnp
make install

Finally, while still root, copy the following support libraries and header files, then run ldconfig:

cp ../ixml/inc/ixml.h /usr/include/upnp/.
cp ../threadutil/inc/ithread.h /usr/include/upnp/.
cp ../ixml/bin/libixml.so /usr/lib/.
cp ../threadutil/bin/libthreadutil.so /usr/lib/.
ldconfig

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