install xbmc

[John J. Macey]

Mike,

I am not sure what UBUNTU is up to these days. I try every other new 
release, and always go back to Linux Mint.

So, you have done the install? And, have FRODO? Or, EDEN?

John


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>> 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>> 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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