How to install XBMC in Ubuntu 10.10

[stephanecharette]

There is lots of confusing information on how to get XBMC installed. I took some of the information from http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title...rmic_or_higher and figured out how to make it work in Ubuntu 10.10:

Start by running this command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc

Now click on System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager->Settings->Repositories->Other Software.

Select the first ppa for team-xbmc, then click on "Edit..."

Change the Distribution to "lucid". Click OK.

Select the 2nd ppa for team-xbmc, and make the same the same change to "lucid".

Reload the packages, and then install "xbmc" as well as "xbmc-standalone". If you want to use the command-line instead of Synaptic Package Manager to do this, here are the relevant commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone

You should now have XBMC in Applications->Sound & Video->XBMC Media Center.

[mbryne]

thanks for that, worked a treat!

[jcer93705]

There is lots of confusing information on how to get XBMC installed. I took some of the information from http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title...rmic_or_higher and figured out how to make it work in Ubuntu 10.10:

Start by running this command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc

Now click on System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager->Settings->Repositories->Other Software.

Select the first ppa for team-xbmc, then click on "Edit..."

Change the Distribution to "lucid". Click OK.

Select the 2nd ppa for team-xbmc, and make the same the same change to "lucid".

Reload the packages, and then install "xbmc" as well as "xbmc-standalone". If you want to use the command-line instead of Synaptic Package Manager to do this, here are the relevant commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone

You should now have XBMC in Applications->Sound & Video->XBMC Media Center.

I have trouble i don't see it when u said
Now click on System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager->Settings->Repositories->Other Software.

Select the first ppa for team-xbmc, then click on "Edit..."

also when i do sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone

jaime@jaime-Satellite-L505D:~$ sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

Als when i do a reload on synaptic it says

[jcer93705]

Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/p...rce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/p...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[jcer93705]

Then i clicked on the link and haha well........ Whats wrong? Wrong url?

[Nakaleen]

I have trouble i don't see it when u said
Now click on System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager->Settings->Repositories->Other Software.

Select the first ppa for team-xbmc, then click on "Edit..."

also when i do sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone

jaime@jaime-Satellite-L505D:~$ sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

Did you have Synaptic Package Manager open when you typed that? I did and caused that error. Just close Synaptic and it works fine.

[jcer93705]

Did you have Synaptic Package Manager open when you typed that? I did and caused that error. Just close Synaptic and it works fine.

Nope

[axept]

"Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/p...rce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/p...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found"


I get this too !!!!

Why?

[roguebuck]

"Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/p...rce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/p...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found"


I get this too !!!!

Why?

same thing here, from what i can tell, its a bad url?

[shantiq]

try this?



to install xbmc

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Code:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties pkg-config

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc

found it was not happy on maverick so had to relabel to lucid in software sources

click on System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager->Settings->Repositories->Other Software.

Select the first ppa for team-xbmc, then click on "Edit..."

Change the Distribution to "lucid". Click OK.
Select the 2nd ppa for team-xbmc, and make the same change to "lucid".

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Code:

sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone

Code:

sudo apt-get update