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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 | ||
| + | n bar above). --> | ||
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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 ====== | ||
| - | - Install Slackware | + | - Install Slackware. Optionally, use an old PC; you might be surprised at how powerful even an older PC can be for media playback. |
| - | - Set the default windows manager to TWM. | + | - Install [[https:// |
| - | - Create user xbmc and login as user xbmc. | + | - To keep the install as light as possible, use a lightweight GUI environment. You probably don't need a traditional desktop; copy ''/ |
| - | - Copy ''/ | + | - Create a user named '' |
| - | - Edit '' | + | - Edit '' |
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| / | / | ||
| exec / | exec / | ||
| - | </ | + | </ |
| / | / | ||
| #/ | #/ | ||
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| exec / | exec / | ||
| </ | </ | ||
| - | | + | - Edit / |
| - | - Install FFMPEG, XBMC and their dependencies via [[http:// | + | |
| - | | + | After you reboot the machine, it should boot right into kodi, and you should have |
| - | sudo -u xbmc startx | + | a working media center/ |
| - | </ | + | |
| - | 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 Samba file sharing: < | * To enable Samba file sharing: < | ||
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| - | For NFS, you'll have to do some other configuration but all that is explained in the [[howtos: | + | For NFS, you'll have to do some other configuration but all that is explained in |
| + | the [[howtos: | ||
