Archive:Compile Kodi on Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS

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This is a tutorial on how to install XBMC on Fedora 8/9/10/11/12 & CentOS 5.2

Checkout from subversion

svn co Template:Svn XBMC

Install Packages

Fedora 8-12

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

CentOS 5 (32)

rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

CentOS 5 (64)

rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

Cut & Paste Fun

yum install SDL* glew glew-devel libmad-devel tre tre-devel libogg libogg-devel libvorbis libvorbis-devel boost \
boost-devel bzip2-devel bzip2-libs fribidi* lzo lzo-devel mysql-libs mysql-devel jasper jasper-devel faac faac-devel \
enca enca-devel hal hal-devel hal-libs cmake gperf nasm libXmu-devel fontconfig-devel freetype-devel libXinerama-devel \
pcre-devel gcc-c++ sqlite-devel curl-devel mysql-devel libcdio-devel libmms-devel faad2-devel flac-devel libsmbclient-devel \
libXtst-devel libsamplerate-devel libtiff-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel avahi-devel

Configure

cd XBMC/
./bootstrap
./configure

With the above installed packages this should go smoothly :)

Build

make

Install

make install

When this completes you are done!

For Fedora 10-12, SELinux will prevent loading of some .so files due to potential security problems. To allow the loading of these files (thats what you probably want), simply open a terminal and as sudo (or as root) execute the following commands:

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/local/share/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avutil-50-i486-linux.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/local/share/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avcodec-52-i486-linux.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/local/share/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avformat-52-i486-linux.so'
chcon -t textrel_shlib_t '/usr/local/share/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/swscale-0.6.1-i486-linux.so'

Simply log into Gnome (or KDE) and open up a terminal and type 'xbmc' and it will load.