install xbmc

[John J. Macey]

>
> 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 
<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 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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