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Recently I was asked by a client to look at purchasing and installing FMS2 on their server.

So I looked around the adobe site to find out prices and found they release a developers version (full version of the server but limited to 10 streams and non-production use), as well as this they release a windows version and a linux version.

Great I thought. I'll get the linux dev version, install it and check that it actually works on their system before purchasing a copy. Linux version means it will work on all versions of linux - right? Wrong!

Like a number of streaming server vendors they produce a version for windows - fine, and version for Red Hat Linux 4.0 (presumably because that's the same as every other linux right?).  

This sucks, because generally these types of programs come with their own binary installers  which detect your OS and won't install if it is not supported by them. Which means that in the case of CentOS it won't install out of the box, even though CentOS is essentially a clone of Redhat Enterprise Linux with the basically the same version numbers.

FMS2 is no different, but luckily it uses a shell script to install itself which means we can hack it!

First issue is that it is designed to run on Redhat 4.0 so we need to install some compatibility binaries - luckily this can be easily accomplished via YUM by running the following command from the shell:

yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i386
yum install seamonkey-nspr.i386

Next issue is that the installer script looks for Redhat on your system to allow the install to take place, we don't have redhat but we have CentOS so we add in a couple of sneaky lines to allow it to find Centos and report it as Redhat and not error as a result. 

To do this first find out what your operating system identifies itself as - in the case of CentOS you can run the following from the shell:

less /etc/redhat-release

And you'll see that a single line is output - in my case it's:

CentOS release 4.4 (Final)

Note this down somewhere.

Next open  the FMS install script (called installFMS) in a text editor such as nano and look for the line that says:

cd_check "Red Hat Enterprise Linux [WAE]S release 4" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL4-i686

And just directly below it on a new line add:

cd_check "CentOS release 4.4 (Final)" /etc/redhat-release redhat-RHEL4-i686

Save the file and the run it from the shell

./installFMS

And that's it, the server should install just Dandy!

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