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Author: Michael Havens
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I did it! The instructions they gave were to put "deb
http://archive.mene.za.net/raspbian wheezy contrib" into
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mene.list . Well,I put it into sources.list
and ran apt-get update and now xbmc is installing as I speak.

On 3/9/15, Mark Phillips <> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I was hoping there were more repositories for raspian, or perhaps you were
> missing one of the wheezy repositories. However, your sources.list is
> correct based on the raspian page.
>
> Sorry I can help you any more on this. I have never use raspian or a
> Raspberry PI.
>
> Mark
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
>> ~ $ more /etc/apt/sources.list
>> deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib
>> non-free rp
>> i
>> # Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
>> #deb-src
>> http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/archive.raspbian.org/archive/raspbian/ whe
>> ezy main contrib non-free rpi
>>
>>
>> On 3/9/15, Mark Phillips <> wrote:
>> > Michael,
>> >
>> > What is in your sources.list? cat /etc/apt/sources.list
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>> > On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 3:44 PM, coverturtle <>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Michael,
>> >> About the SD card:
>> >> The Raspberry is not the fastest processor but it's still a
>> >> bunch faster than the SD card. So it's best to get the
>> >> fastest SD card you can afford, at least a 16GB card.
>> >>
>> >> You may have an older version, but my raspberry mod 2
>> >> had no trouble loading the raspberry version of debian that
>> >> was available over a year ago. It is running an 8GB
>> >> SanDisk Ultra 30MB/s 6 HC I. I loaded XBMC on it with
>> >> no complaints. Of course you probably have a newer
>> >> version of the Pi and the software.
>> >>
>> >> If I had to change anything, I would try to use the fastest
>> >> SD Card I could afford, preferable the kind used in the
>> >> new high-end cameras. Also, the one with the most
>> >> storage I could afford, but the priority is speed over
>> >> storage size.
>> >>
>> >> The other thing is that open source development can
>> >> sometimes be frustrating (like I can't install batctl on
>> >> my linux box right now) so just keep trying. But just
>> >> once or twice a day because you know the developers
>> >> probably won't upload updates to the mirrors more
>> >> than once a day.
>> >>
>> >> And relax.
>> >>
>> >> FWIW, that's all I have for you.
>> >>
>> >> Good luck,
>> >> Jon
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 03/08/2015 04:45 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> hi guys, I got a problem. I ordered a Raspberry PI to run XBMC (aka
>> >>> Kodi) on so I can return the NUC to my father. The PI installs an IS
>> >>> called Raspian (a modified Debian). I am now having problems
>> >>> insralling XBMC (aka Kodi). Here is what happens:
>> >>>
>> >>> I ran apt-get upgrade- no problem
>> >>> ~ $ sudo apt-get install xbmc
>> >>> Reading package lists... Done
>> >>> Building dependency tree
>> >>> Reading state information... Done
>> >>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> >>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> >>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> >>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>> >>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>> >>>
>> >>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> >>>   xbmc : Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1) but it
>> >>> is
>> >>> not installable
>> >>>          Depends: xbmc-bin (< 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1.1~) but it
>> >>> is not installable
>> >>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

>> >>>
>> >>> ~ $ sudo apt-get install xbmc-bin
>> >>> Reading package lists... Done
>> >>> Building dependency tree
>> >>> Reading state information... Done
>> >>> Package xbmc-bin is not available, but is referred to by another
>> >>> package.
>> >>> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
>> >>> is only available from another source
>> >>>
>> >>> E: Package 'xbmc-bin' has no installation candidate
>> >>>
>> >>> So what do I need to do? Whenever I install xbmc from a n ubuntu
>> >>> based
>> >>> os it installs with no problem. Every other time I installed it onto
>> >>> a
>> >>> debian based os it installed with no problems.
>> >>> Another thing, I am also supposed to add a repository but this is the
>> >>> result:
>> >>>
>> >>> ~ $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
>> >>> sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found
>> >>> ~ $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
>> >>> sudo: apt-add-repository: command not found
>> >>>
>> >>> I believe I added the repository onto a debian based os before but if
>> >>> it is not possible this is operator error.
>> >>>
>> >>
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