Mike, Good choice with FRODO. Yeah, the 3rd party add-ons are where all the good stuff is. Try this link . 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 > 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 > >> > 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" > >> 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~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss **