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howtos:multimedia:htpc [2013/01/23 17:49 (UTC)] hazel [Here's What I Did] |
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====== How To Build A Slackware Mediacenter (HTPC) With XBMC ====== | ====== How To Build A Slackware Mediacenter (HTPC) With XBMC ====== | ||
====== 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 prevented the system from working or were too annoying. | + | 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 prevented | ||
+ | the system from working or were too annoying. | ||
+ | lackware | ||
====== Here's What I Did ====== | ====== Here's What I Did ====== | ||
- Install Slackware on an old PC. | - Install Slackware on an old PC. | ||
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- | - Create user xbmc and login as user xbmc. | + | - Copy ''/ |
- | - Copy ''/ | + | - Create a user named **xbmc** and login as the user xbmc to create the essential window manager configuration files. |
- | - Edit '' | + | - Edit '' |
/ | / | ||
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/ | / | ||
exec / | exec / | ||
- | </ | + | </ |
/ | / | ||
#/ | #/ | ||
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exec / | exec / | ||
</ | </ | ||
- | | + | - Edit / |
- | - Install FFMPEG, XBMC and their dependencies via [[http:// | + | |
- | | + | |
- | sudo -u xbmc startx | + | |
- | </ | + | |
- | After you reboot the machine, it should boot right into XBMC and you should have 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: | ||