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- | ====== Build A Slackware Mediacenter (HTPC) With XBMC ====== | + | <-- Reviewed 2013-01-23 by hazel --> |
+ | ====== | ||
====== 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 |
====== Here's What I Did ====== | ====== Here's What I Did ====== | ||
- | 1) Install Slackware on an old PC. | + | - Install Slackware on an old PC. |
- | + | | |
- | 1a) Set the default windows manager to TWM. | + | |
- | + | | |
- | 2) Create user xbmc and login as user xbmc. | + | |
- | + | / | |
- | 3) Copy / | + | |
- | + | ||
- | 4) Edit ~/.xixnitrc | + | |
- | < | + | |
/ | / | ||
/ | / | ||
/ | / | ||
- | exec / | + | exec / |
- | to: | + | </ |
- | < | + | / |
#/ | #/ | ||
#/ | #/ | ||
#/ | #/ | ||
#exec / | #exec / | ||
- | exec / | + | exec / |
- | + | </ | |
- | 5) su back to root | + | - "su" |
- | + | | |
- | 6) Install FFMPEG, XBMC and their dependencies via sbopkg. | + | |
- | + | sudo -u xbmc startx | |
- | 7) Edit / | + | </ |
- | < | + | |
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/ | ||
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====== 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: |
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- | 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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