[Mark Phillips]

Michael,

What is in your sources.list? cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Mark

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 3:44 PM, coverturtle <coverturtle at gmail.com> 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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