Medusa is a powerful media server that can help you stream your movies, TV shows, music, and photos to any device in your home. It is easy to use, and it can be installed on EndeavourOS Latest in just a few simple steps. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Medusa on EndeavourOS Latest.
Before starting with the installation, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to install the dependencies required by Medusa. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -S git python python-pip python-wheel python-setuptools python-lxml python-chardet python-idna python-enum34 python-service_identity
This will install the necessary dependencies needed for the installation.
Next, we need to download the Medusa repository from GitHub. Run the following command in the terminal:
git clone https://github.com/pymedusa/Medusa.git
This will clone the Medusa repository to your current directory.
Now, we can run the installation command to install Medusa. Navigate to the Medusa directory using the following command:
cd Medusa
Then, run the following command to install Medusa:
sudo python setup.py install
This will install Medusa on your system.
After the installation is complete, we need to configure Medusa. First, we need to create a user and group for Medusa to run under:
sudo useradd -r medusa
Then, we need to create a directory for Medusa to store its configuration files:
sudo mkdir /etc/medusa
sudo chown -R medusa:medusa /etc/medusa
Next, we need to create a systemd service file for Medusa:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/medusa.service
And paste the following contents:
[Unit]
Description=Medusa Media Server
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=medusa
Group=medusa
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/supervisord -n -c /etc/medusa/supervisord.conf
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Save the file (Ctrl+O), and exit (Ctrl+X).
Finally, we need to create a supervisord configuration file for Medusa:
sudo nano /etc/medusa/supervisord.conf
And paste the following contents:
[supervisord]
user=medusa
nodaemon=true
[program:medusa]
command=/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/twistd -ny /opt/Medusa/Medusa.tac -l /var/log/medusa/medusa.log --pidfile /var/run/medusa/medusa.pid
user=medusa
autostart=true
autorestart=true
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/var/log/medusa/medusa-stdout.log
stderr_logfile=/var/log/medusa/medusa-stderr.log
Save the file (Ctrl+O), and exit (Ctrl+X).
Now that we have everything set up, we can start the Medusa service:
sudo systemctl enable medusa.service
sudo systemctl start medusa.service
This will enable and start the Medusa service.
Finally, we can access the Medusa WebUI by going to the following URL in a browser:
http://<your-endeavouros-ip-address>:8081
And that's it! You should be able to log in and start using Medusa to stream your media to any device on your network.
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