install xbmc

[John J. Macey]

Mike,

Good choice with FRODO. Yeah, the 3rd party add-ons are where all the 
good stuff is. Try this link 
<http://www.xbmchub.com/blog/2012/04/24/fusion-easy-addon-installation-for-xbmc/>.

John


On 02/03/2013 05:46 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> I installed Frodo and (after attempting to add third party add ons) I 
> tried to go to a channel and:
>
> XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server 
> ":0.0"
>       after 232 requests (232 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> Crash report available at /home/bmike2/xbmc_crashlog-20130203_173458.log
>
> hey look.... there is a crash log!
>
>
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com 
> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
>     It's in Ubuntu as well, I suspect that you haven't turned on the
>     extra package repositories in the package manager.
>
>     Just go turn them on and you should be all set.
>
>     That being said if you use the PPA the packages will almost
>     certainly be a lot more up to date.
>
>     Brian Cluff
>
>
>     On 02/03/2013 04:42 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>         it is strange.... the xbmc repos are included in mint (I had
>         installed
>         it at one time) but not in ubuntu (the computer it is on now).
>         This is
>         what confused me! Thanks for saying that it is a PPA! With that
>         information I was able to locate tghe repository for xbmc.
>         :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>         On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com
>         <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>>>
>         wrote:
>
>             Verify that the pa mage is indeed called xbmc? I have seen
>         packages
>             named something I would not have at first guessed before. Also
>             verify you have the needed repos enabled.
>
>             On Feb 3, 2013 4:02 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com
>         <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>
>             <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>                 well, I decided to move my secondary computer  into
>         the living
>                 room and just run xmbc as a program (bummer). So I go to a
>                 terminal and:
>
>                 ~$ sudo apt-get install xbmc
>                 Reading package lists... Done
>                 Building dependency tree
>                 Reading state information... Done
>                 E: Unable to locate package xbmc
>
>                 so update my apt database but that doesn't help any.
>         Then I do a
>                 little web searching and find that apt-get is the way
>         I should
>                 do it. I found the
>         '=Installing_XBMC_for_Linux#Ubuntu_2' page
>                 and it implies that xmbc id in the official ubuntu
>         repository so
>                 apt should do it.
>
>                 So please, what am I doing wrong?
>
>                 :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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