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pfriederichs Wrote:Again I really do appreciate the comments so far and any further assistance!

Can you open a ticket for that and put me in the cc list?
Look at my signature to know how to do it.

In your process, can you use aptitude dist-upgrade when trying to upgrade your packages ? (without uninstalling xbmc-common)
wattazoum Wrote:Can you open a ticket for that and put me in the cc list?
Look at my signature to know how to do it.

In your process, can you use aptitude dist-upgrade when trying to upgrade your packages ? (without uninstalling xbmc-common)

I tried "aptitude dist-upgrade" and got the following result:
http://pastebin.com/m3ce8651d

Fresh install from xbmc-live-9.11-b1.iso on the download page.

my sources.list contains:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
What about the ticket ?
wattazoum Wrote:What about the ticket ?

sorry, i´ll see if i can get it right.

Edit: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/8056
There are some packages located over here tagged with beta2. Is this the new beta2?

http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/p...in/x/xbmc/
Just a FYI, if you are getting an error message about lack of opengl support, make sure you have the glxinfo executable on your system. The current debs don't depend on the mesa-utils package which has it.

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/8101
pimlottc Wrote:Just a FYI, if you are getting an error message about lack of opengl support, make sure you have the glxinfo executable on your system. The current debs don't depend on the mesa-utils package which has it.

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/8101

Should be fixed in 9.11~beta2-hardy25640
Somehow there seems to be an audio-delay in XBMC's interface since the second last update (SVN 25484). When doing something like navigating or selecting the audio has a delay of about half a second. Are there any major changes in audio support? When viewing a movie or listening to music everything is OK (allthough I am not sure for music, as there is no visual equivalent it has to synchronize with).

Besides that the latest releases, regardless of alpha, beta or SVN are stable, usable and getting better and better! Many thanks for your work, this is a really great collection of bits and bytes! Big Grin
Another question on dependencies: do the new Beta 2 debs for Ubuntu 9.10 not include dependencies on xorg any more? Whenever I work with apt-get after installing Beta 2, I get the following message:

Quote:The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
xserver-xorg (..... followed by 30 or so packages linked to xorg)

Will this be fixed in future?
haxor999 Wrote:Will this be fixed in future?

What do you mean by fixed ?
I believe it's more interesting that we have trashed unneeded dependencies from XBMC. This allows having minimal install and not having XBMC pulling dependencies.Smile
wattazoum Wrote:What do you mean by fixed ?
I believe it's more interesting that we have trashed unneeded dependencies from XBMC. This allows having minimal install and not having XBMC pulling dependencies.Smile

I did not realize it was done intentionally Smile I've explicitly done apt-get install xserver-xorg but am still getting a few messages about packages that can be removed, however which I know are needed on my bare-bones system. If anyone has any pointers on the minimal meta-packages needed to cover a base xorg install on Karmic I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
haxor999 Wrote:I did not realize it was done intentionally Smile I've explicitly done apt-get install xserver-xorg but am still getting a few messages about packages that can be removed, however which I know are needed on my bare-bones system. If anyone has any pointers on the minimal meta-packages needed to cover a base xorg install on Karmic I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
What do you want with an installation of xorg alone? Usually every graphical application somehow depends on X. As XBMC can be driven without X (-> standalone) why should it depend on X?

So you should ask yourself, what do you want? Run XBMC exclusively, then you can remove anything that XBMC doesn't depend on. If you want to use some other apps, they should themselves depend on some kind of xserver or framebuffer or sthg else. Easiest way would be to select an appropriate window manager and run the installation. Then everything will be fine.
Congratulations! Just updated to RC1 Cool
A big step towards final release!
haxor999 Wrote:Another question on dependencies: do the new Beta 2 debs for Ubuntu 9.10 not include dependencies on xorg any more? Whenever I work with apt-get after installing Beta 2, I get the following message:



Will this be fixed in future?

Lol after reading below I thought great ill run apt-get autoremove and remove all the junk I no longer need WRONG!

soon as i rebooted xbmc failed to start. I had to reinstall xorg and reinstall the nvidia drivers to get it going.

Q: to me it appears xorg is needed but i welcome someone to enlighten me why uninstalling it didn't work for me...
Is there any place for previous PPA packages? I'm seeking for latest beta2 packages for karmic (the one before rc1) - I rummaged public PPA folders without luck. And I have also ran apt-get clean Sad