OpenPHT 1.9

## Repo For Ubuntu 18.04

There are no OpenPHT builds for newer versions of linux. Nothing is available past Ubuntu 16.04. Or at least there weren't. There's now a [public repo] you can install the binary from thanks to [StefanoBalocca].

```bash
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stefanobalocco/multimedia
sudo apt update
sudo apt install openpht
```


## Building it Yourself

Some [have reported] success building it and that work forms the basis for the repo. I personally have tried and while successful in the past am failing currently. There is a compile issues around openpht's use of glew and potential bugs in it at this moment. They may be patched in a more recent version of glew.

Note:
The libraries libglew2.0 libmicrohttpd12 libsdl1.2debian are used so it might have something to do with them

The former way to most easily build it was created by user [blindy] and he's updated that recently (April 2019)  to include patches developed by vdimitrov above.

```bash
wget https://anythingtech.com.au/public/openpht-install
chmod +x openpht-install
./openpht-install
```


[StefanoBalocca]:https://github.com/StefanoBalocco/OpenPHT.
[public repo]: https://launchpad.net/~stefanobalocco/+archive/ubuntu/multimedia/
[have reported]: https://forums.plex.tv/t/build-working-openpht-1-9-0-from-source-on-ubuntu-bionic-18-04-lts/363351
[blindy]: https://forums.plex.tv/t/ubuntu-script-to-install-openpht/148021






### Build Notes

The major process is building an old version of ffmpeg and then applying patches to the OpenPHT code so you can avoid installing old packages.



#### Process

##### Install some build dependencies and build ffmpeg.

You can't just install the current version of ffmpeg because the build will fail. The OpenPHT github page says "Bump ffmpeg to 2.8.14" so we'll use that.

Adapted from NedtheNerd[^1][^2]

Install Build Deps

sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core libsdl-image1.2-dev libflac++-dev libshairport-dev
sudo apt-add-repository -s ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get build-dep kodi

Download and Patch OpenPHT
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT.git openpht-source
cd openpht-source

wget https://github.com/RasPlex/Dockerfiles/raw/master/patches/plexht-0001-cec-update-to-libcec-4.patch
wget https://github.com/RasPlex/Dockerfiles/raw/master/patches/plexht-0002-websocketpp-openssl.patch

patch -p1 < plexht-0001-cec-update-to-libcec-4.patch # libcec>=4
patch -p1 < plexht-0002-websocketpp-openssl.patch # openssl>=1.1

Download, Patch and Build ffmpeg
(You have to build this first as a dependency for OpenPHT as the binrary packages are trickey
to find forward-ports for)
cd ~
mkdir ~/ffmpeg-sources
cd ~/ffmpeg-sources
wget http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-2.8.14.tar.gz
tar -xzf ffmpeg-2.8.14.tar.gz
cd ffmpeg-2.8.14
cp -r ~/openpht-source/lib/ffmpeg/patches patches

# You may want to enable 3DNow
./configure --prefix="/usr/local" --disable-altivec --disable-amd3dnow --disable-avisynth --disable-crystalhd --disable-debug --disable-decoder=mpeg_xvmc --disable-devices --disable-doc --disable-dxva2 --disable-encoders --disable-extra-warnings --disable-ffmpeg --disable-ffplay --disable-ffprobe --disable-ffserver --disable-frei0r --disable-gray --disable-hardcoded-tables --disable-indevs --disable-libdc1394 --disable-libfaac --disable-libfreetype --disable-libgsm --disable-libmp3lame --disable-libnut --disable-libopencore-amrnb --disable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-libopencv --disable-libopenjpeg --disable-librtmp --disable-libschroedinger --disable-libspeex --disable-libtheora --disable-libvo-aacenc --disable-libvo-amrwbenc --disable-libvorbis --disable-libvpx --disable-libx264 --disable-libxavs --disable-libxvid --disable-memalign-hack --disable-mmi --disable-muxers --disable-nonfree --disable-outdevs --disable-small --disable-static --disable-symver --disable-vda --disable-version3 --disable-w32threads --disable-x11grab --enable-asm --enable-avcodec --enable-avdevice --enable-avfilter --enable-avformat --enable-bsfs --enable-bzlib --enable-dct --enable-demuxers --enable-fft --enable-filters --enable-gpl --enable-hwaccels --enable-libvorbis --enable-logging --enable-mdct --enable-muxer=adts --enable-muxer=ogg --enable-muxer=spdif --enable-network --enable-optimizations --enable-parsers --enable-pic --enable-postproc --enable-protocol=http --enable-pthreads --enable-rdft --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-shared --enable-stripping --enable-swscale --enable-swscale-alpha --enable-vaapi --enable-vdpau --enable-yasm --enable-zlib --host-libs=-lm
make -j 4
make check
sudo make install
make clean

cat /etc/ld.so.conf
    (verify it has these two lines ...maybe)

    include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
    /usr/local/lib

sudo ldconfig




cd ~
mkdir ~/openpht-build
cd ~/openpht-build

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCOMPRESS_TEXTURES=on -DUSE_INTERNAL_FFMPEG=off -DENABLE_AUTOUPDATE=off -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/openpht "~/openpht-source"



wget': wget http://anythingtech.com.au/public/openpht-install


https://forums.plex.tv/t/build-working-openpht-1-9-0-from-source-on-ubuntu-bionic-18-04-lts/363351















mkdir openpht-build
cd openpht-build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCOMPRESS_TEXTURES=on -DUSE_INTERNAL_FFMPEG=off -DENABLE_AUTOUPDATE=off -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/openpht "~/openpht-source"





Troubleshooting

$ sudo apt-get build-dep
E: Must specify at least one package to check builddeps for

    sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
    # Uncomment all the sourced lines, e.g.

    #deb-src

Could NOT find libcrypto

    sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

Could NOT find GLEW

    sudo apt-get install libglew-dev

Could NOT find VORBIS

    sudo apt-get install libvorbis-dev

Could NOT find MPEG2

    libmpeg2-4-dev

Could NOT find RTMP

    librtmp-dev

Could NOT find SHAIRPLAY

    libshairplay-dev

Could NOT find YAJL

    libyajl-dev

Could not find FFMPEG

    ffmpeg libavformat-dev libavdevice-dev libavcodec-dev libavfilter-dev libpostproc-dev libswscale-dev


something something boost - this sucks as it's a huge package

    libboost-all-dev

 Could NOT find LIBUSB

    apt install libusb-dev
---

Errors during Make

‘CEC::libcec_configuration {aka struct CEC::libcec_configuration}’ has no member named ‘bPowerOnScreensaver’

    Add the option to disable CEC
  
    -DENABLE_CEC=off
    #make clean and make again

or

Add the old sources from xenial

    https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libs/libcec3
    https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libcec-dev

    wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libc/libcec/libcec3_3.0.1+dfsg2-9build1_amd64.deb
    wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libc/libcec/libcec-dev_3.0.1+dfsg2-9build1_amd64.deb

    sudo dpkg --force-all -i libcec3_3.0.1+dfsg2-9build1_amd64.deb
    sudo dpkg --force-all -i libcec-dev_3.0.1+dfsg2-9build1_amd64.deb



 error: ‘SSL_R_SHORT_READ’ was not declared in this scope


    https://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/libssl-dev

    wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl-dev_1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.14_amd64.deb

    sudo dpkg --force-all -i libssl-dev_1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.14_amd64.deb



Sources:


[^1]: https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT/wiki/Building-OpenPHT-from-source-on-Ubuntu-14.04
[^2]: https://forums.plex.tv/t/build-working-openpht-1-9-0-from-source-on-ubuntu-bionic-18-04-lts/363351


https://forums.plex.tv/t/building-openpht-for-ubuntu/125965
https://techoverflow.net/2018/05/03/how-to-fix-apt-get-source-you-must-put-some-source-uris-in-your-sources-list/
https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT/issues/246
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/ubuntu-how-to-install-package-from-older-distro%27s-ppa-4175598045/
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