topic title: Netflix and antiX 13
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#1
I'm a netflix subcriber. there, I've said it. and I've wante it to run on antiX for a long time. Thanks to the ehoover repo this is now possible. but its meant for ubuntu, not debian/antiX, so there are a few extra steps involved. I've tested this procedure twice now...

Installing Netflix on Antix 13 (released)

If you want netflix installed on antiX 13, here are the steps you need to follow. Please note that this will consume several hundred MB of data storage and may not be appropriate for older hardware. Your mileage may vary.

This assumes that you are using antiX 13 final release and the default wheezy repos.
***This will not work with the Jesse/Testing repos***

For ease of use, use the command line.

all as root

1.

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# apt-get update
2. add to various.list source list the following repos. The netflix repo is obvious. You need mozilla.debian.net repo to satifsy a dependency to wine-browser-installer that comes with the netflix-desktop package.

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#netflix      
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ehoover/compholio/ubuntu oneiric main
#iceweasel-release
deb http://mozilla.debian.net/ wheezy-backports iceweasel-release
3. issue this command

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#apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 1F691896
4. update package lists again

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# apt-get update
5. if 64 bit, issue the following.

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dpkg --add-architecture i386
6. update package lists again

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# apt-get update
7. Install Microsoft core fonts, required by netflix-desktop

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#apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
8. accept the mscorefonts eula by issueing the following command. its one line.

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sh -c"echo ttf-mscorefonts-installer msttcorefonts/accepted-mscorefonts-eula select true | debconf-set-selections"

10. Now the netflix-desktop package

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 apt-get install netflix-desktop
11. exit root
12. as regular user, run netflix-desktop from terminal. It will continue to download various packages, including a windows vesion of firefox, silverlight, and some mono packages.
13. you can cancel at the point when it requests to install gecko packages. Netflix should launch when finished. I've noticed that it sometimes times-out before the page loads, especially on time warner dns servers. Its just a full-screen browser window and you can use F11 to reduce it to a normal window. cntrl-L brings up the open website dialog if you wish.
14. when finished, apt-get install libwine-gecko-1.4 just to be safe.

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 #apt-get install libwine-gecko-1.4
15. you will need to add netflix-desktop to your menu manually.


***edit to vastly simplify the process***
Last edited by dolphin_oracle on 11 Oct 2013, 20:07, edited 1 time in total.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#2
edited the procedure to reflect that their is no need to remove iceweasel and libnspr4. All you need to do is enable the mozilla.debian.net repo and the missing dependencies will be satisfied.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#3
edited the procedue above to reflect this currently only works with the wheezy repos. Jesse's structure is changing too much and certain lib libraries no longer have the same names.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#4
Netflix in Jessie (testing) can be accomplished by the instructions in this thread:


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url was:"http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html"
linktext was:"http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html"
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I installed the multi-pipelight version and it worked fairly well. The netbook didn't have the horsepower, but my normal laptop did.

and its freaky to see a silverlight plug-in showing up in a linux web browser. Still relies on a custom wine implementation though, buts its a little lighter than the old netflix-desktop system.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#5
I don't do netflicks but hulu free instead. This thread is too cool for skool.
Thanks D.O.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#6
no es problemo, Roky! I like me some hulu free as well!

I'll have a video how-to once antix goes 13.5, since 13.5 will be back to testing.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#7
Doh Deee Doh De DOH

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$ apt-cache policy cclive
cclive:
  Installed: 0.7.9-1
  Candidate: 0.7.9-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.9-1 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
harry@biker:~
$ cclive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kCotJWcoiE
Checking ... ........ ...... ........done.
Installing AntiX 13.mp4  70.68M  [video/mp4]
[#--------------------------------------------]   4%  3.2M  131.2K/s  00:08:[#------------------------------------------]   4%  3.2M  131.3K/s  00[#------------------------------------]   4%  3.2M  131.4K/s  00:0[#----------------------------------]   4%  3.2M  131.4K/s  00:08:[#------------------------------]   4%  3.2M  132.3K/s  00:08:4[#######################------------------------------------------]  35%  25.1M  93.0K/s  00:08:21
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#8
Also one could use youtube-viewer cli app in a terminal

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 youtube-viewer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kCotJWcoiE

=>> Description
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My first youtube video.  Here we are installing Antix 13 32bit, the latest release of AntiX. 
 The goal here is to highlight the ease of installation fo AntiX 13 as well as to point
out some features of the LiveCD/USB environment.

AntiX is Debian-Based, with a smattering of MEPIS tools thrown in as well as their own 
customization tools, optimized for old machines or machines with limited hardware like
netbooks.  It absolutely sings on new hardware.

You can find info at mepis.antix.org or at antix.freeforums.org.  Other links available at 
Distrowatch.com (ranked 35 at the time of this video).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kCotJWcoiE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                             =>> Installing AntiX 13 <<=

** Author    : runwiththedolphin
** Category  : Science & Technology
** Duration  : 14:26
** Rating    : 5.00
** Likes     : 14
** Dislikes  : 0
** Favorited : 0
** Views     : 2,527
** Published : 06 Jun 2013
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leeper69
Joined: 24 Dec 2011
#9
Hi has anyone tried XBMC? it is better than netflixs and hulu can be used in it. its a shame debian doesn't have it in there repositories. ubuntu has it.
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rust collector
Joined: 27 Dec 2011
#10
uh, debian does have xbmc
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#11
I don't feel like breaking my install yet to test. Just after a dist-upgrade also.
I started adding outside repos first. oppserver threw a nkeyring error and I don't have the energy to investigate further. The week ends are party days for me.

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harry@biker:~
$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for harry: 
Hit http://liquorix.net sid InRelease
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates InRelease                       
Hit http://liquorix.net sid/main amd64 Packages                                
Hit http://antix.daveserver.info stable InRelease                    
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main amd64 Packages             
Hit http://antix.daveserver.info stable/main amd64 Packages          
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org testing InRelease                       
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib amd64 Packages          
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free amd64 Packages         
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en          
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en             
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org testing/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex   
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://liquorix.net sid/main Translation-en_US                   
Ign http://liquorix.net sid/main Translation-en                              
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org testing/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex        
Ign http://antix.daveserver.info stable/main Translation-en_US               
Ign http://antix.daveserver.info stable/main Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org testing/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org testing/main Translation-en/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.gr.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en/DiffIndex
Reading package lists... Done
harry@biker:~
$ cat etc/apt/sources.list.d
cat: etc/apt/sources.list.d: Is a directory
harry@biker:~
$ cd etc/apt/sources.list.d
harry@biker:etc/apt/sources.list.d
$ ls
antix.list  debian.list  debian.list.dpkg-dist  various.list
harry@biker:etc/apt/sources.list.d
$ cat debian.list
# Note:For maximum stability, the stable/wheezy repos are set as default.
# Wheezy is the new stable release and will only recieve security 
# updates, while Testing will be 'rolling'.

# Debian Stable
# Enabled for maximum stability.
#deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free 
#deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free 
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main contrib non-free 

# Debian Testing. 
# Enable for 'rolling' release.
deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free 
#deb-src http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free

# Multimedia Stable and Testing
# Use to install libdvdcss2 and codecs.
#deb http://debian.oppserver.net/xbmc/ jessie main non-free contrib
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main non-free
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org wheezy main non-free

###### Debian Unstable/Sid##########
###### Use at your own risk! ########
#deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org unstable main non-free

###### Debian Experimental##########
###### Use at your own risk! ########
#deb http://ftp.gr.debian.org/debian/ experimental main 
harry@biker:etc/apt/sources.list.d
$ uname -r
3.11.5-antix.1-amd64-smp
harry@biker:etc/apt/sources.list.d
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  spacefm-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apt-antix set-screen-blank-antix
The following packages will be upgraded:
  add-desktop-antix add-key-antix add-start-antix advert-block-antix
  antix-cc-full-antix antix-goodies antix-libs antix-snapshot-cli
  antix-snapshot-gui brit-icons cli-installer-antix
  desktop-defaults-full-antix exit-antix faq-docs-antix fluxbox-themes-antix
  gtangish-2.0a1-icons icewm-themes-antix icewmcc-antix install-meta-antix
  inxi-gui-antix keyboard-cc-antix live-boot-docs-antix live-usb-cli-antix
  live-usb-gui-antix menu-fluxbox-antix menu-icewm-antix menu-jwm-antix
  mountbox-antix mouse-cc-antix phonebook-antix remaster-antix
  screenshot-antix simplygrey-icons slim smxi-inxi-antix spacefm system-antix
  user-management-antix wallpaper-antix
39 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 35.2 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
harry@biker:etc/apt/sources.list.d
Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /posting.php on this server.
All / removed from etc/apt/blah blah blah because of forum bug
The following packages will be REMOVED:
spacefm-common
Oh really __{{emoticon}}__
uh, debian does have xbmc

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harry@biker: etc/apt/sources.list.d
$ apt-cache search xmbc
harry@biker: etc/apt/sources.list.d
I tried seeing if it would show up also if I uncommented

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#deb http://debian.oppserver.net/xbmc/ jessie main non-free contrib
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free
#deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org testing main non-free
Those 3 repos and no xmbc showed up either after a apt-get update as root. Like I said. I've been here so far

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_for_Linux#Debian_2"
linktext was:"http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HO ... x#Debian_2"
====================================


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.deb-multimedia.org/"
linktext was:"http://www.deb-multimedia.org/"
====================================


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://debian.oppserver.net/xbmc/"
linktext was:"http://debian.oppserver.net/xbmc/"
====================================


But no joy yet, and, why in the heck after last night I got some more updates and gotta reinstall spacefm common afterwards?
Probably need another thread for that. Good thing I am a mod and can screw up the forum or unscrew it up. __{{emoticon}}__

Back to saturday night fun and games for me.
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rust collector
Joined: 27 Dec 2011
#12
hmm, you are right... now, where did I get it then? lol, sorry about that..



Ok, on testing, with the mm repo enabled, I could instal it __{{emoticon}}__
Last edited by rust collector on 16 Nov 2013, 23:09, edited 1 time in total.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#13
uh, rok, its in debian stable main.

here's a shot from synaptic

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jdmeaux1952
Joined: 01 Nov 2013
#14
Just went onto Synaptic and YUP!, you can find XBMC. Unfortunately, it won't work on my system (P III with 512mb at 996Mhz). Spent 13 minutes of HD running, and CPU at 100%. And it still crashes. DELETE!
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rust collector
Joined: 27 Dec 2011
#15
uh, roky, it is xbmc, not xmbc, I guess that is why you don't find it?