Emby on ReadNAS -

July 25, 2017

Hi all,

There are quite a few posts on this forum with people asking for support for ReadyNAS, and a few replies saying there are already .deb files / cryptic clues on what you might have to do to get it working. As most of these are over 1-2 years old I thought I'd give it a go and see where I got up to.

I'm by no means an expert. I've worked in IT for quite some time but when it comes to Linux am definitely a novice.

Anyway - I have a ReadyNAS 314, running firmware 6.7.5. Having researched this appears to be a version of Debian Wheezy, with kernel 4.4.

Starting from here I found a post that said there was a .deb file to install so went here - https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Aemby&package=emby-server

Debian Wheezy is apparently Debian Version 7, so I tried that:

echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/emby/Debian_7.0/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emby-server.list

apt-get update

apt-get install emby-server

This told me I require Mono

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/33323-emby-on-netgear-readynas/ confirmed that mono is required.

So I looked up adding mono to ReadyNAS which led me here - https://community.netgear.com/t5/Community-Add-ons/Mono/td-p/989615

apt-get update

apt-get -y install apt-transport-https sudo nano git-core python python-software-properties software-properties-common

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF

echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian wheezy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -y install mono-devel

This failed as it said various mono dependencies were missing.

Looking up one of those found - https://forums.sonarr.tv/t/sonarr-broken-on-readynas-os-6-7-1-libmono/14685/4

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF

echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian2 jessie main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list

echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian2 wheezy-apache24-compat main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list

echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian2 wheezy-libjpeg62-compat main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list

sudo apt-get update

Next do:

apt-get remove mono*

then do:

apt-get clean

apt-get autoclean

apt-get update

Next, do

sudo apt-get install mono-devel

At the end of this mono was installed (hurrah!). So I went back to the first step - https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Aemby&package=emby-server

And tried Debian Version 7 again

echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/emby/Debian_7.0/ /' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/emby-server.list

apt-get update

apt-get install emby-server

Sadly this failed as while I now have mono, I have an old version.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

emby-server :

Depends: embymagick but it is not going to be installed

Depends: mono-devel (>= 4.6) but 4.2.1.102+dfsg2-6 is to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

This is where I've managed to get to. I feel it's closer than previous posts and was wondering if anyone else can take it up from here or offer further advice?

July 25, 2017

Mono and its dependencies can be a pain sometimes. I suggest trying to install mono-complete instead

apt-get install mono-complete

Either that or maybe look into running Emby in Docker if Docker is available on ReadyNAS.

Edited July 25, 2017 by Jdiesel

July 29, 2017

I had the same problem when upgrading my ReadyNAS from 6.1.? to 6.7.4.

I thought I had written down what I did to solve it, but I can't find where... I remember adding the official mono repository from this page http://www.mono-project.com/download/#download-lin-debian

Then I did

apt-get install mono-complete

if I remember correctly I had problems with apt still wanting to install from the ReadyNAS repository so I either changed the priority of the Mono repository or managed to force it to install from the Mono repository in some other way.

I had these pages in my browser history (together with alot of others on the same subject)

https://askubuntu.com/questions/27362/how-to-only-install-updates-from-a-specific-repository

https://askubuntu.com/questions/135339/assign-highest-priority-to-my-local-repository

which might have something to do with it

Good luck!