Build XBMC/Boxee under Fedora 9
I left the LinuxMCE core/hybrid and didn’t assemble the new one yet. So, I use my laptop or old desktop to watch movies. With desktop is everything fine. It run Kubuntu 0804 and I installed there Boxee – nice looking, social media center software. But there is Fedora 9 on my laptop and Boxee doesn’t offer binaries for it. There is an only one way to install Boxee from the source.
I found nice tutorial which explains how to install XBMC on Fedora 9. Since Boxee is based on XBMC I tried to use it to build Boxee. But without luck. By some reason the xbmc.bin wasn’t created.
Then I tried to build XBMC using recommendations from that tutorial. Finally I did it. XBMC is run under Fedora 9 without any problems. Will try to build Boxee again as well. Maybe the second time will be successful.
UPDATE: Finally I built Boxee under Fedora 10 (for 9 should be the same). The trick is that. Instead of running make install after make finishes the script make-boxee.sh should be run. I didn’t adjust it for Fedora 10 and it gave me a lot of warnings. But as result I was able run Boxee successfully.
UPDATE2: There is a problem with Boxee under Fedora 10. Instead of playback I see the fast-forward. Also Boxee crashes with Segmentation Fault very often. Will try to build with the fresh sources tonight.
Did you succeed in building boxee?
Unfortunately no. The make doesn’t give any errors but xbmc is not created. I have no idea why.
I successfully built XBMC and it worked fine under Fedora 8 till it was upgraded to 10. By some reason, playback of DivX looks like fast-forward.
Check updated post. I’ve added additional information which can help you to build Boxee under Fedora.
in ubuntu 8.10 the fast foward was related to pulseaudio
try removing pulse
Thanks for your suggestion, wonslung. Will try it.