How to install Boxee in Gentoo Linux

This howto uses Boxee version 0.9.23.15885

Requirements

 * How to install Boxee in Gentoo Linux/Requirements from README file

ebuild

 * Edit: /etc/make.conf
 * Add line: PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
 * Edit: /etc/portage/package.use
 * Add line: dev-db/sqlite extensions
 * mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/media-tv/boxee/
 * Download: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=256814
 * unzip boxee-sources-0.9.23.15885.zip
 * cp -R boxee/* /usr/local/portage/media-tv/boxee/
 * Edit: /usr/local/portage/media-tv/boxee/boxee-0.9.23_beta15885.ebuild
 * Change line: =www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.2.161.23_pre20101117
 * To: >=www-plugins/adobe-flash-10.2
 * cd /usr/local/portage/media-tv/boxee/
 * ebuild boxee-0.9.23_beta15885.ebuild digest
 * emerge boxee

Patches

 * How to install Boxee in Gentoo Linux/boxee-libpng14.patch

Common Errors

 * checking for main in -ldl... no
 * you could be missing myql
 * may need "export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/mysql"
 * ximapng.cpp: error: 'struct png_info_struct' has no member named 'trans_values'
 * You need to patch libpng14 errors

Old versions

 * How to install Boxee in Gentoo Linux/version 0.9.6.4578