Ubuntu 14.04 startup difficulty

Question

I installed Universal Media Server 3.6 on ubuntu 14.04 desktop. What I want to do is, to launch it during startup. How to add this into startup? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '14 at 19:31

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I assume you've already installed Java. If not, you can execute the following command to install the OpenJDK JRE (an open source alternative for Oracle's Java):

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

Follow the these instructions to start Universal Media Server at startup.

Open your Dash
Search for Startup Applications and open it
Click on Add

Enter the following:

Name:    Universal Media Server
Command: java -jar /path/to/ums.jar
Comment: Start Universal Media Server

Replace /path/to/ums.jar by the actual path to ums.jar.

Click on Add

answered May 04 '14 at 19:31

Louis Matthijssen

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are you sure about .jar? maybe ums.sh? – hunter May 04 '14 at 19:47
Oh, could be, I downloaded it quickly, saw a .jar and assumed that was the main binary. If you can confirm it doesn't work I'll edit my answer. – Louis Matthijssen May 04 '14 at 19:53
I did as you said, but neither .sh nor .jar didn't work. i mean application not launched on startup. – hunter May 04 '14 at 22:14

Ubuntu 14.04 startup difficulty

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