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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
As we need to install some package outside of the regular repositories you need to enable networking for the Template VM.
qvm-prefs --set t-multimedia netvm sys-firewall
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 follwoing command without the need to use sudo
sudo -i
Installation of Spotify
Import GPG-Key for spotify
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 0DF731E45CE24F27EEEB1450EFDC8610341D9410
http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xEFDC8610341D9410&fingerprint=on UUID: Spotify Public Repository Signing Key tux@spotify.com Key-ID: 0x341D9410 Fingerprint=0DF7 31E4 5CE2 4F27 EEEB 1450 EFDC 8610 341D 9410
Add Spotify repository to package list
echo deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
Update package list
apt-get update
Install Spotify from the repositories
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
Add Repository for libdvdcss (See also: http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html)
Add GPG-Key
apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 8F0845FE77B16294429A79346BCA5E4DB84288D9
Public-Key: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xB84288D9&fingerprint=on Fingerprint: 8F08 45FE 77B1 6294 429A 7934 6BCA 5E4D B842 88D9
Add repositories to install VLC and libdvdcss
echo "deb http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://download.videolan.org/pub/debian/stable/ /" >> /etc/apt/sources.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 Google Chrome package from the Google Debian repository
wget -c https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
FIXME: Howto verify the debian package or better adding a Google Debian package repository? Link: https://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/
1st attempt to install the downloaded package
dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Installer will quit with an error message as not all dependencies are met (yet):
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-chrome-stable: google-chrome-stable depends on fonts-liberation; however: Package fonts-liberation is not installed. google-chrome-stable depends on libappindicator1; however: Package libappindicator1 is not installed. dpkg: error processing package google-chrome-stable (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured (...) Errors were encountered while processing: google-chrome-stable
Install the missing dependencies for Google Chrome
apt-get -f upgrade
(This will install: fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libdbusmenu-glib4 libdbusmenu-gtk4 libindicator7 libxss1)
After the dependencies are installed rerun package installation of Chrome
dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
Clean up the mess and shutdown your multimedia template VM
rm google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb && shutdown -h now
Create a Multimedia AppVM
After you have created the multimedia AppVM template you can create an AppVM for daily use based on it
qvm-create --template=t-multimedia --label=orange multimedia
Add Google Chrome, VLC and Spotify to the AppVM Menu via "add/remove app shortcuts"