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@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@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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