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Multimedia
In order to choose Qubes OS as your primary OS it must be able to do all tasks, including playing multimedia content. This howto explains how to create a multimedia temmplate which can be used to play multimedia content. This includes:
- Spotify
- Amazon Prime
- Netflix
- DVDs
Hint: This first draft of this howto was written under Qubes OS 3.2 but it should also work for Qubes 4rc4.
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"