install xbmc

[Brian Cluff]

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 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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