>
> That being said if you use the PPA the packages will almost certainly
> be a lot more up to date.
Brian,
How right you are. Here
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http://imageshack.us/a/img203/959/snapshot26f.png> is an image of the
PPAs that I added.
John
On 02/03/2013 05:30 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 <cryptworks@gmail.com
>> <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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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