Boxee Fedora 10/11 port

[kurgan]

I know it's close to the Beta release, and i'll have to do some of this all over again. After a great deal of work I have a proper port done without alien. The spec file, src rpm and a binary rpm can be found here. Please read the readme.beta which contains some details about installation. I have only tested on F10 for now. I will attempt to update this once I get my hands on the Beta release. Many thanks to the people who helped me hammer out the details, they know who they are.

EDIT: Date and time issue corrected by creating the file /etc/zoneinfo with contents in the format of: America/New_York

EDIT: Well, sources 10408 required the creation of /etc/timezone to fix the time issue :-/

EDIT: 6/24/2010 Dropped builds for EOL Fedora 10 and 11.

EDIT: 7/11/2010 Updated to 9.21.12563

[sdnick484]

Great work kurgan; can some folks post their results with this RPM?

[kurgan]

Thanks sdnick484. Feedback is certainly welcome. I'm not sure how much attention I might be able to give to issues since the beta is about to drop, but i'll do my best.

[sp00ge]

Kurgan I appreciate that the Beta will be available soon,
but I wondered how easy it would be to generate a Boxee RPM for Fedora 12 ?

[kurgan]

Ask and ye shall receive :-) New packages and spec file can be found at the link in my first post. The same rules still apply from the readme. Please note, I have not tested these packages on f12 at all, only that installation and uninstall works.

[sp00ge]

Thank you kurgan, the RPM works great.
Had to install a few libs to get it to start, but all seems to be working fine.

Huge time saver, thanks again.

[tmort]

I went to the link tonight and didn't find any rpms. What's up?

I'm interested in Boxee beta for fedora 12

[kurgan]

I apologize folks, I had to make some slightly important changes to the spec file. I should have F12 packages up before lunch.

If anyone else has installed the Beta packages I put up in the last three days, you will want to uninstall them and grab the new packages once I get them up.

EDIT: F12 packages are now up. Feedback welcome.

[justinsin]

I apologize folks, I had to make some slightly important changes to the spec file. I should have F12 packages up before lunch.

If anyone else has installed the Beta packages I put up in the last three days, you will want to uninstall them and grab the new packages once I get them up.

EDIT: F12 packages are now up. Feedback welcome.

kurgan, I just wanted to say thank you for the time and effort you have put into making these rpms available for us Fedora users. I just downloaded the F12 rpm and will be trying it out later this evening. I will be sure to post feedback here. Thanks again!!

[kurgan]

justinsin, thank you. I have been testing on F10 32 bit, and flash is hit and miss. One minute it works, and another it doesn't. What's strange is, the Youtube app seems to always work, even when other flash video apps don't. Go figure that one.

One problem aside from flash i'm having, is the time. I have fiddled a bit with it, but not enough to figure it out. It would be nice to know where Boxee pulls this from. I see LinuxTimezone.cpp in xbmc/linux.

EDIT: Just figured out the time issue. Debian uses /etc/timezone, and evidently that's what gets read instead of /etc/localtime. I created a file named /etc/timezone with the following content, restarted Boxee, and all was fine.

America/New_York