Amahi Blog

The rebellion strikes back!

The Amahi team is proud to announce the launch of the Amahi Web App Gallery.

That’s right! Once you have installed Amahi you can simply visit the list of available applications and install them on your home server with a single click!

Watch the screencast of the one-click installer in action with Gallery 2 the after the break below!

Applications being released with this announcement include:

• Gallery2 , popular photo gallery application
• uShare, UPnP and DLNA audio/visual media server
• Jinzora, easy to use media streaming and management solution
• WordPress, the leading blogging application
• MediaWiki, the same Wiki package that got Wikipedia going!
• Transmission, slick bit torrent client
• SABnzbd , simple to use binary news reader
• AjaXplorer, amazing, full featured, browser based, file navigator
• WebVNC, remotely control your server through a browser
• and more … with many others coming soon!

Packaging applications for one-click install is pretty simple. Indeed, one Linux n00b in the community (with some help in IRC channel) packaged the Jinzora media server!

If you have a favourite application you’d like to make available through one-click install see our how to contribute an application page.

Many many thanks to our great community for helping Amahi get to this important stage!

And now, back to Star Wars analogies – the Rebels have more applications in our gallery than the Empire. Let’s work to keep it that way!

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A bunch of Amahi updates today, finxing a variety of relatively small issues.

One of them (in the platform) has been outstanding for a while and it was very annoying. Thanks to Mitch Davenport for contributing it and Steve Sennett for helping us nail this one by providing a reproducible environment to debug and fix it.

• platform 0.92:
  • Fix issue where a dvd mounted could cause the setup screen to show as an error. Unfortunately, the fix is not a great solution and it may break again in the future. The problem is when mounted disks have special characters in the name, apparently, Linux reports them escaped in /etc/mtab (like a space is \040), which means the file we try to find is not found
  • Fix install scriplet failure to use full path
• iHama theme 1.1:
  • Fix some CSS styling issues with application tables
  • Fix size of the thumbnail to be the standard 64×64
• slideshow 0.26:
  • Better support for PicLens
  • Render the MediaRSS feed and the slideshow in alphanumerical order, so the pictures show in the order in which the directories show
  • Ignore image files whose name starts with a dot (Mac OS X generates lots of these for its own thumbnails)

As usual, the theme and the app need to be clicked (installed) in the MyApps page, to pick up the updates.