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Multimedia

Note: This Howto has been written and was tested under Qubes 4rc4

You can consolidate most of your media streaming tasks into one "multimedia" App-VM. This howto explains how to create a multimedia temmplate which can be used to play multimedia content. This includes:

• Spotify
• Amazon Prime
• Netflix
• DVDs

Installation

Start by cloning the default debian template in dom0. Hint: t-multimedia is just the template VM where we will install all packages. In the last step we will create an AppVM from this template.

qvm-clone debian-9 t-multimedia

Launch a Terminal in the new template VM:

qvm-run --auto t-multimedia gnome-terminal

Important: Enter all the following commands in the terminal of the template VM Become the root user to run all following command without the need to use sudo in the multimedia template VM

sudo -i

Installation of Spotify

Import GPG-Key for spotify As the template VM can't connect to internet you need to get the public key file from another AppVM and copy it to the template VM. The easiest way is to use the Qubes Clipboard to copy the keys from the AppVM where you get the key to the Template VM.

In an AppVM which has Internet access:

• Open http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xEFDC8610341D9410
• Copy content of page to the Qubes Clipboard (Ctrl+C and then Shift+Ctrl+C)

Switch to the gnome terminal in the Multimedia Template VM

nano spotify.pubkey

Paste the content from the Qubes Clipboard into nano (Shift+Ctrl+V and then Paste) Save the file (Ctrl+O Ctrl+X)

Add the public key to the repository keyring apt-key add spotify.pubkey

Verify Fingerprint with

apt-key finger spotify

You can (and should) lookup the fingerprint on the keyserver: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xEFDC8610341D9410&fingerprint=on

Add the Spotify repository to your list of package sources:

echo deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list

Update the list of all known packages

apt-get update

Install Spotify apt-get install -y spotify-client

Create a spotify desktop-entry

cp -p /usr/share/spotify/spotify.desktop /usr/share/applications/

cp /usr/share/spotify/icons/spotify-linux-16.png /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/spotify.png

Installation of VLC

To play DVDs you can install VLC with the needed Codecs

Download the public key which signs the VLC package repositories In an AppVM which has Internet access:

• Open http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6BCA5E4DB84288D9
• Copy content of page to the Qubes Clipboard (Ctrl+C and then Shift+Ctrl+C)

Switch to the gnome terminal in the Multimedia Template VM

nano vlc.pubkey

Paste the content from the Qubes Clipboard into nano (Shift+Ctrl+V and then Paste) Save the file (Ctrl+O Ctrl+X)

Add the public key to the repository keyring apt-key add vlc.pubkey

Verify Fingerprint with

apt-key finger VideoLAN

You can (and should) lookup the fingerprint on the keyserver: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xB84288D9&fingerprint=on

Add the new VLC package repositories to your list of sources

echo "deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vlc.list

echo "deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vlc.list

Update package repositories

apt-get update

Install libdvdcss and VLC

apt-get install -y libdvdcss2 vlc

Installation Google Chrome

To play Videos with Netflix, Amazon Prime & Co using Chrome is a good option as it has all needed codecs included. Hint: Using Chromium will not work for some reasons.

Download the public key which signs the Google package repositories In an AppVM which has Internet access:

• Open http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7721F63BD38B4796
• Copy content of page to the Qubes Clipboard (Ctrl+C and then Shift+Ctrl+C)

Switch to the gnome terminal in the Multimedia Template VM

nano google.pubkey

Paste the content from the Qubes Clipboard into nano (Shift+Ctrl+V and then Paste) Save the file (Ctrl+O Ctrl+X)

Add the public key to the repository keyring

apt-key add google.pubkey

Verify Fingerprint with

apt-key finger Google

You can (and should) lookup the fingerprint on the keyserver: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x7721F63BD38B4796&fingerprint=on or https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/

Add the Google package repositories to your list of sources echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main"> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list

Update package repositories

apt-get update

Install Chrome

apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Create a Multimedia AppVM

. The last step is to create a multimedia AppVM (named "my-multimedia" here) based on the new multimedia template.

qvm-create --template t-multimedia --label-orange my-multimedia