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cpierce

Member

Registered: 2011-05-22

Posts: 11

XBMC

I have been playing with XBMC on my jailbroken AppleTV, which is amazing. XBMC modified Ubuntu to make os called XBMCbuntu. My goal was to install this on a Raspberry Pi to make my own low cost media center box. Raspberry Pi is a little amazing computer with HDMI, two USB ports, Ethernet port, SD card, etc...... And costs $35. I worry that this XBMCbuntu may be too big for this little computer. Since I love SliTaz, I thought it would be perfect, but I don't know if anyone has been able to install XBMC on SliTaz. 

I know everyone loves free movies, TV, and sports, and this little box would be so cool. Would this be possible ?

tropetre

Member

Registered: 2012-07-06

Posts: 79

Re: XBMC

You could try it yourself, I managed to install Spotify on my SliTaz PC. Try to download it from the ubuntu repositories and then do a TazPkg convert so that it would become  a .tazpkg file. The when it's installed you should launch it from terminal emulator so that you'll find out what errors (if any) it'll encounter.

You may also chose to install from sourcecode:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_compile_XBMC_for_Linux_from_source_code

Filou

Moderator

Registered: 2011-05-03

Posts: 256

Re: XBMC

I love SliTaz too and think it the ideal platform, BUT:

maybe you should have a look at OpenELEC, which is a minimal Linux coded just and only to run XBMC. As far as I know, there's even a Raspberry Pi version already compiled.

I'm still waiting for my Pi, but a colleage told me of running OpenELEC on his.

cpierce

Member

Registered: 2011-05-22

Posts: 11

Re: XBMC

Thank you Emil and Fliou, both good replys. I will check both of these ideas and report back.

Thanks Guys