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| - | <!-- Add your text below. We strongly advise to start with a Headline (see button | + | <!-- Reviewed 2013-10-16 by mfillpot --> |
| - | ====== Build A Slackware Mediacenter (HTPC) With XBMC ====== | + | <!-- Reviewed 2013-01-23 by hazel --> |
| + | <!-- Add your text below. We strongly advise to start with a Headline (see butto | ||
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| ====== My Situation ====== | ====== My Situation ====== | ||
| - | I wanted a **stand alone** media center and everything pointed to XBMC. I tried the various LiveCD versions of XBMC but each had problems that either | + | I wanted a **stand alone** media center and everything pointed to XBMC. I tried |
| + | the various LiveCD versions of XBMC but each had problems that either | ||
| + | the system | ||
| + | lackware | ||
| ====== Here's What I Did ====== | ====== Here's What I Did ====== | ||
| - | 1) Install Slackware on an old PC. | + | - Install Slackware on an old PC. |
| - | + | - Install XBMC, ffmpeg and the dependencies via [[http:// | |
| - | 1a) Set the default windows manager to TWM. | + | |
| - | + | - Create a user named **xbmc** and login as the user xbmc to create the essential window manager configuration files. | |
| - | 2) Create user xbmc and login as user xbmc. | + | |
| - | + | / | |
| - | 3) Copy / | + | |
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| - | 4) Edit ~/.xixnitrc | + | |
| - | < | + | |
| / | / | ||
| / | / | ||
| / | / | ||
| - | exec / | + | exec / |
| - | to: | + | </ |
| - | < | + | / |
| #/ | #/ | ||
| #/ | #/ | ||
| #/ | #/ | ||
| #exec / | #exec / | ||
| - | exec / | + | exec / |
| + | </ | ||
| + | - Edit / | ||
| - | 5) su back to root | + | After you reboot the machine, it should boot right into XBMC and you should have |
| - | + | a working media center/ | |
| - | 6) Install FFMPEG, XBMC and their dependencies via sbopkg. | + | |
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| - | 7) Edit / | + | |
| - | < | + | |
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| - | After you reboot the machine, it should boot right into XBMC and you should have a working media center/ | + | |
| ====== Some Other Things to Configure ===== | ====== Some Other Things to Configure ===== | ||
| - | If you keep your media files on other machines and they are accessible via Samba or NFS, make sure you: | + | If you keep your media files on other machines and they are accessible via Samba |
| - | + | or NFS, make sure you enable file sharing: | |
| - | To enable | + | |
| - | < | + | |
| - | To enable | + | * To enable |
| - | < | + | chmod 755 / |
| + | </code> | ||
| + | * To enable NFS file sharing: < | ||
| + | chmod 755 / | ||
| + | </ | ||
| - | For NFS, you'll have to do some other configuration but all that is explained in the NFS wiki pages. | + | For NFS, you'll have to do some other configuration but all that is explained in |
| + | the [[howtos: | ||
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