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How to install totem-pps.
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Updated Jan 31, 2010 by sunmoon1...@gmail.com

Introduction

Steps to install totem-pps from source tarballs.

Details

Firstly, You have to install a few libraries provided by pps.tv.

Download this tarball, http://download.ppstream.com/linux/release_for_ubuntu.tgz
Untar the tarball with command

    $tar zvxf release_for_ubuntu.tgz
    $cd release_for_ubuntu

Copy the config file to your system

    $cp ppscdn_config.ini /etc

Another tarball named libs_for_ubuntu.tgz should be in directory release_for_ubuntu. Please untar this tarball too.

    $tar zvxf libs_for_ubuntu.tgz

What we need is the libpps.so, so copy them to your system library path for example

    $cp libs/libpps*so* /usr/lib -a

Secondly, You have to install a gstreamer plugin to play pps:// or tvod:// streams.

Download libppswrapper-$version.tar.gz and gst-plugins-$version-tar.gz from the home page of totem-pps
Install libppswrapper. Before installing it, please ensure gcc and g++ and libc develop packages are installed.

    $tar zvxf libppswrapper-$version.tar.gz
    $cd libppswrapper-$version
    $./configure --prefix=/usr
    $make && sudo make install

Then install the gstreamer plugin. You have to install gstreamer and gst-plugins-base development packages to compile it.

    $tar zvxf gst-plugins-pps-$version.tar.gz
    $cd gst-plugins-pps-$version
    $./configure --prefix=/usr
    $make && sudo make install

Lastly, install the totem plugin.

Download totem-pps-$version-tar.gz from the home page of totem-pps
Install the plugin. Before installing it, please ensure totem, python and beautifulsoup are installed on your system.

    $tar zvxf totem-pps-$version.tar.gz
    $cd totem-pps-$version
    $./configure --prefix=/usr
    $make && sudo make install

Run the totem-pps

Start the totem
Enable totem-pps by check the totem ppstream button in totem's plugin configure dialog(Menu->Edit->Plugins...).
Select the ppstream siderbar and enjoy it.

Comment by chenhuan...@gmail.com, Nov 8, 2009

How to install on Fedora?

Comment by loveneme...@gmail.com, Dec 11, 2009

Here is the Fedora guide:

http://linuxtoy.org/archives/how-to-setup-ppstream-on-fedora.html

Comment by xiaofeng...@gmail.com, Dec 15, 2009

Failed to run "$./configure --prefix=/usr".

Error Message: checking whether pps libraris is available... no checking whether pps 32bit libraris is available... no configure: error: 'couldn't find pps libraries.

I followed the first step and all libpps*so files were copied to /usr/lib successfully. Any idea on how to fix it? BTW, my system is ubuntu 9.0.4 on ps3. Thanks!

Comment by project member sunmoon1...@gmail.com, Dec 16, 2009

@xiaofeng.xia gst-plugins-pps doesn't work on ps3 yet. The libpps*so is x86 only. You may ask ppstream.com to release libpps*so for ps3...

Comment by dongbeta, Dec 18, 2009

Failed to run "$./configure --prefix=/usr". couldn't find pps libraries

Comment by ywen2...@gmail.com, Dec 25, 2009

I followed the instruction and everything compiled smoothly on Fedora 12. I did see the categories getting updated in the side bar of totem. However, when I click on the channels, some errors occur, saying that "could not read from the resource" or "No URI handler implemented for "ppstream"". Any idea how that would happen? BTW, the script for firefox does work. I still cannot play pps in firefox. Thanks.

Comment by son...@gmail.com, Dec 30, 2009

"Could not read from the resource", any idea?

Comment by jbenedic...@gmail.com, Jan 2, 2010

got the same message as "songzw". Google search and noticed ppstream seem to forbid Linux since end of Dec 2009....if that is true, it's sad.

Comment by richard0...@gmail.com, Jan 6, 2010

Failed to run "./configure --prefix=/usr" in libppswrapper. Can't I get it run on x64?

Comment by hubscher.remy, Jan 17, 2010

Same message than songzw... Can somebody talk to the ppstream team and see what's going on ?

Comment by breeze.g...@gmail.com, Jan 24, 2010

To chenhuan.qt

According to this thread , Totem-pps can be installed on Fedora exactly by the same way.

Comment by behrmanh...@gmail.com, Jan 27, 2010

I've installed all these packages. However, after I ran Totem, I could not enable totem-pps plugin in the plugin configure dialog. It gave an error message saying it could not be actived. Anyone knows about this?

Comment by project member sunmoon1...@gmail.com, Jan 31, 2010

@benrmanhuyao: Please install beautifulsoup(the package name depends on your distro, it is python-beautifulsoup on ubuntu) before enabling the totem-pps plugins.

Comment by mal...@gmail.com, Jan 31, 2010

Still not working after installing beautiful soup on Karmic Koala. Is Linux still blocked?

Comment by chiu0...@gmail.com, Feb 4, 2010

"Failed to run "$./configure --prefix=/usr". couldn't find pps libraries"

"Before installing it, please ensure gcc and g++ and libc develop packages are installed."

Comment by scut...@gmail.com, Feb 4, 2010

can't enable plugin pps for totem. the terminal print error as follows:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/totem/plugins/ppstream/ppstream.py", line 21, in <module>
import ppslist
File "/usr/lib/totem/plugins/ppstream/ppslist.py", line 18, in <module>
import BeautifulSoup?

ImportError?: No module named BeautifulSoup?

(totem:19489): WARNING : Could not load plugin ppstream

how can I fix it?

Comment by pang.s...@gmail.com, Feb 23, 2010

After running the configure for gst-plugins-$version, there is no Makefile and thsu make does not work. There are Makefile.in and Makefile.am though.

Help please?

Comment by Ferdaus...@gmail.com, Mar 5, 2010

try: 1. sudo apt-get install autoconf 2. sudo apt-get install libtool 3. sudo apt-get install git-core then, at each plugin directory, run: sudo ./autogen.sh

Comment by san...@gmail.com, Mar 17, 2010

you have to install BeautifulSoup? to fix it.

Comment by hchen....@gmail.com, Mar 21, 2010

I'm trying to compile this under Snow Leopard 10.6.2 with MacPort? and Totem already installed. But when I ran "./configure -prefix=/opt/local" in the libppswrapper folder. It gave me this error:

checking whether pps libraris is available... no
checking whether pps 32bit libraris is available... no
configure: error: 'couldn't find pps libraries.

I've put the libpps*so in both /usr/lib and /opt/local/lib. What should I do to make it find the libpps files?

Comment by son...@gmail.com, Apr 24, 2010

libpps*.so.0.1.940 reports "User not allowed(0x80000006)".

Does it work or not now?

Comment by lovecn1...@gmail.com, Jun 5, 2010

please ensure gcc and g++ and libc develop packages are installed！！！！！

Comment by weidt2...@gmail.com, Jun 10, 2010

make && sudo make install display an error 'make: 没有规则可以创建目标“install”。停止。'

Comment by np3w...@gmail.com, Sep 15, 2010

when doing:

$tar zvxf libppswrapper-$version.tar.gz 
$cd libppswrapper-$version 
$./configure --prefix=/usr

I get stopped at this point:

configure: Using GStreamer PPStream Plug-in source release as package name configure: Using Unknown package origin as package origin checking for pkg-config... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for GST... no no configure: No package 'gstreamer-0.10' found configure: error: no gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.0 (GStreamer) found

I tried downloading gstreamer packages using

sudo aptitude install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 gstreamer0.10-gnonlin gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-sdl gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-schroedinger gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse totem-gstreamer

but It still says that I don't have it. any help would be greatly appreciated

Comment by sm.sp...@gmail.com, Sep 29, 2010

Hi! May I install on Debian? Thinks.

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