LinuxMCE-0810 alpha0

LinuxMCE-0810-alpha0 is a test release build from the sources available in the LinuxMCE-0810 branch of SVN. It is missing several components of which the sources are not publicly available. The currently available alpha0 (pre-alpha) version is broken in numerous ways.

Installation

1. Install Kubuntu Intrepid, update it and enable the restricted (video) drivers if needed. (download [32bit i386 from kernel.org] , [choose a version/mirror])
2. Grab the latest installer script from here, unpack them and change into the freshly created new-installer directory.
3. run the following scripts (as root, in order): pre-install-from-repo.sh, mce-install.sh, post-install.sh.
4. reboot, wait for the activity to stop (see progress on console 8), install pluto-dcerouter and pluto-orbiter again (courtesy of the bootscripts), then run the post-install.sh script once more and reboot.

UPDATE: If you used the new-installer-006.tar.bz2 or earlier to install, please run the following command to resolve a slight misconfiguration:

sudo sed 's/[^#]*PK_Distro = [0-9]*/PK_Distro = 17/' -i /etc/pluto.conf

Known problems

Please add all the issues you can find below, and/or add your name to the list of people confirming (simply sign it with ~~~).

General issues

Add software list

• The "Add Software" list is empty, this probably needs to be filled somewhere, see also "workarounds" below.

Confirmed by: tkmedia, Zaerc

Junk in sources.list

• There are entries for old repositories that keep being added to the sources.list, needs further investigation.

Confirmed by: tkmedia, Zaerc

External Media Identifier

The External Media Identifier fails to start, this is because it wasn't build as the sources are not available, however it can be installed successfully using the 0710 "id-my-disc_1.8.ub0710_i386.deb" package.

Confirmed by: tkmedia

Confirmed Working

• DVD identification - Ripping

• CD identification - Ripping

Confirmed by: tkmedia

• ATI Radeon HD3200 & UI2 + Overlay (installed using nothing but the AVwizard)

Confirmed by: Totallymaxed

To Do

• Fix bootscripts to not de-install pluto-dcerouter and pluto-orbiter on first boot.
• Patch latest version of lirc that comes with Intreped. Zaerc
• Fix diskless boot for MDs.
• Fix UI2 playback problem.
• Update pluto-mythtv-player to the proper protocol version (MainServer::HandleVersion - Client speaks protocol version 31 but we speak 40!).