HOW-TO compile XBMC for Linux on Fedora Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS

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HOW-TO compile XBMC for Linux on Fedora Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS

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Goto: Installing XBMC for Linux
Contents

    * 1 Checkout from subversion
    * 2 Install Packages
    * 3 Configure
    * 4 Build
    * 5 Install


This is a tutorial on how to install XBMC on Fedora 8/9 & CentOS 5.2
Checkout from subversion

svn co http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/ ... hes/linuxport/XBMC/

Install Packages

Fedora 8, 9 or 10

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/f ... e-stable.noarch.rpm  \
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/n ... e-stable.noarch.rpm
CentOS 5 (32)
rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i ... 6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
CentOS 5 (64)
rpm -Uvh http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x ... 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

*sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so (i386)
*sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15.0.0 /usr/lib64/libmysqlclient.so (x86_64)
Configure

cd XBMC/
./configure

With the above installed packages this should go smoothly
Build

make

    * jpegint.h error fix

cp XBMC/xbmc/lib/cximage-6.0/jpeg/jpegint.h /usr/include/

Then remake
Install

make install

When this completes you are done!
Simply log into Gnome (or KDE) and open up a terminal and type 'xbmc' and it will load.