Democracy TV

I found Democracy TV while searching for a video podcatcher to receive and watch Chaz's Yogamazing video podcasts in.

Here is how I got Democracy TV working on my Fedora rawhide system

First of all I downloaded the source package for Fedora Core 5 from http://www.getdemocracy.com/downloads/fc5src.php

The rpm package available from the Democracy TV site would not install due to failed dependencies, mozilla-devel prominent among them.

The build of the source (rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/Democracy.spec) failed with a similar error. The mozilla-devel package does not seem to be available for Fedora rawhide. I found a mozilla-devel rpm for FC 5 here: http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/repodata/repoview/mozilla-devel-37-1.7.12-5.html

and force installed it using rpm -Uvh --nodeps, as the mozilla installed on my rawhide system is 1.7.13.

After this it still wouldn't build, and then I found this thread: http://www.fedora-france.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=12245, in French.

Following the instructions there, notably:

as root :

cd /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.13/libgtkembedmoz.so .
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.13/libxpcom.so .

I was able to convince the package to build, and then install it. Installing it required me to get gnome-python2-gtkmozembed, which luckily for me this time, was available in the rawhide repositories.

Then it appeared in the Sound & Video menu.

Now that I have it, I don't know if I can actually watch the podcasts with it. Chaz provides his podcasts through iTunes. Still trying to figure that out...