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How to install Media Explorer?

rated 0 times [ 6] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 643 / 1 Year ago, thu, march 16, 2023, 12:52:55

Media Explorer is a Media Center much like XBMC, it is part of Meego. The latest version, 0.3, is only available as source, which one has to build. A PPA exists, providing version 0.2, yet I don't want it--I want the latest one. The documentation lists the steps to build it in 11.04, but some packages just aren't found.

How can I install the latest version of Media Explorer?

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answered 1 Year ago kroapathe · Accepted Answer

Installing Media Explorer 0.3.6.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

Install the prerequisites (I started from the list in itnet7's answer):

sudo apt-get install intltool libclutter-1.0-dev libsoupcutter-dev libmx-dev libgrilo-0.1-dev libgstreamermm-0.10-dev libclutter-gst-dev liblircclient-dev  libtracker-sparql-0.14-dev libavahi-glib-dev librest-dev libavahi-client-dev tracker

Download the latest media-explorer 0.3.6.1 and extract it in one step:

wget -O- https://github.com/downloads/media-explorer/media-explorer/media-explorer-0.3.6.1.tar.xz | tar -xJ

Fix the configure file because it does not recognize the deprecated soname in the latest clutter libraries, and because it depends on the old tracker-sparql-0.12 library instead of the latest 0.14:
```
cd media-explorer-0.3.6.1

sed -i -e "s/`$PKG_CONFIG --variable soname_infix clutter-1.0`/eglx/g" configure

sed -i -e "s/sparql-0.12/sparql-0.14/g" configure
```

Configure, compile and install Media Explorer with:

./configure --prefix=/usr && make && sudo make install

Start tracker to index content with tracker-control -S, and start Media Explorer from the Launcher (or just media-explorer):