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[Mike Noe]

Either i586 or x86-64 MC should work on TW.  If you're upgrading from an existing MC, I recommend backing up the library.  At this point, you could also remove the existing MC version if so desired.  After the install for MC22, you can then restore the library and restart MC to get all of your settings and zone setups back.

The easiest way to get going is to use the "alien" utility to convert the ".deb" to a RPM package.  Using this method, you can easily install/remove different MC builds at your convenience and if you have a local folder set up as a repo, MC can be managed easily with the Yast software manager.

• Find and install alien for your openSUSE version (https://software.opensuse.org/package/alien)
• Download the MC .deb
• From the .deb location, run sudo alien -r --scripts "MediaCenter-22.0.X.deb" where X is the MC build.  This will take a minute or so, the resultant RPM will be in the same folder.
• Install the RPM sudo zypper in "mediacenter22-22.0.X.i386.rpm" where X is the MC build.

Optionally, if you have a local folder set up as a repo, copy the resultant RPM to that folder and run "sudo zypper up" and it should get picked up to install.

[Awesome Donkey]

Hi, you might want to update this topic, especially for Tumbleweed, as http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/utilities/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ isn't a working link anymore. In fact, I haven't found a working version of alien for Tumbleweed yet.

Also for the newest builds, alien is adding a libboost_regex dependency that can't be fulfilled, thus this script can't build MC anymore. MC uses it's own libboost, so I'm not sure why or how the dependency is being picked up here.

EDIT: This link works as a substitute (though, it's considered unstable): https://software.opensuse.org/package/alien

I'm using the home:ecsos repo, which has a working alien for Tumbleweed!

[Mike Noe]

Looks like the repo name changed for TW back to Factory.  Anyway, there are new builds, but the spec hasn't changed.  I notice too, that there is a new maintainer for the scripts and a later version, will have to take a deeper look when time permits.
Thx AD.

[Mike Noe]

If you are using a non-standard repo for font enchancments in TW, you most likely will experience segfaults with MC in both 32-bit and x86-64.  In short, I believe it to be related to the harfbuzz version mismatching due to the use of newer versions in the freetype2 libs used by the enhancement repos, etc.

Regardless, if you're experience startup segfaults with MC, remove the font enhancement repos, zypper dup, and then try MC again.  TW itself could someday roll an incompatible version itself, so just something to look out for.  Base Leap repos should be fine.

[Hendrik]

Note that we don't directly link against freetype or harfbuzz, but only pango and pango-ft2, so if you can get those compatible with your different font libraries, MC should pick that up.