Hi to all !

Good news for all PMC lovers and those who wanted to try it but haven’t yet. Anyone can easily install PMC on their system with little effort. Only you need to do is, follow the steps which are mentioned below.

Required packages
Fedora

– 17, 18 and 19

$ sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”

$ sudo yum install kde-workspace-devel kdelibs-devel

$ sudo yum install qt-mobility-devel

$ sudo yum install taglib-devel

$ sudo yum install nepomuk-core-devel

– 20 and higher versions

$ sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools”

$ sudo yum install kde-workspace-devel kdelibs-devel

$ sudo yum install qt-mobility-devel

$ sudo yum install taglib-devel

$ sudo  yum install baloo-devel kfilemetadata-devel

Optional Package(kffmpegthumbnailer)

In order to install  kffmpegthumbnailer, enable rpmfusion free repo

$ sudo yum localinstall –nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

$ sudo yum install kffmpegthumbnailer

Ubuntu

– 12.10, 13.04 and 13.10

$ sudo  apt-get install cmake kde-workspace-dev kdelibs5-dev build-essential

$ sudo  apt-get install libdeclarative-multimedia

$ sudo  apt-get install libtag1-dev

$ sudo  apt-get install kffmpegthumbnailer

$ sudo apt-get install nepomuk-core-dev

– 14.04 and higher versions

$ sudo  apt-get install cmake kde-workspace-dev kdelibs5-dev build-essential

$ sudo  apt-get install libdeclarative-multimedia

$ sudo  apt-get install libtag1-dev

$ sudo apt-get install baloo-dev libkfilemetadata-dev

Optional package (kffmpegthumbnailer)

In order to install kffmpegthumbnailer package in Ubuntu 14.04,  add ppa:mc3man/trusty-media

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo  apt-get install kffmpegthumbnailer

openSUSE (13.1 and higher versions)

– checkout blog http://sujithh.info/2013/12/plasma-media-center-on-opensuse-13-1/
Build Instructions

Common for all distro
$ git clone git://anongit.kde.org/plasma-mediacenter

$ cd plasma-mediacenter

$ git checkout  v1.4

$ mkdir build

$ cd build

$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config –prefix`

$ make

$ sudo make install

Note: If you find any error related to moccpp and don’t want to build test, pass -DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=OFF to cmake

Screenshot

Cool! Now you are ready to try it . So, what are you waiting for? Give it a try and have fun.
Still facing any problem? Have suggestion, feedbacks? post as comment!

Cheers!