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XBMC Live Upgrade Path - Xanatos - 2008-09-24

Hi,

I've been using Atlantis Beta 1 with good results (except the mouse cursor chokes up after a couple minutes), but now I'm wondering, what's the upgrade path to Beta2?

I've got Beta 1 all set up nicely on a USB drive, which is filled with a bunch of .img files, so I can't really access their contents easily (I wonder what each of those files contains?)

My xbmc settings and library are all on that USB drive somewhere, but I'm wondering how I'm going to transfer them over to Beta 2 and beyond?

Is there some cool automatic way that I just haven't noticed yet? Or maybe a posting/webpage somewhere that explains how to do the migration by hand?

Thanks,

Cory

- CASHMON3Y - 2008-09-24

I was wondering this too. Theres needs to be an integrated updater. I dont know much about XBMC Live but the XBMC for xbox had a script to update t3ch releases.

- succo - 2008-09-24

wasn't it supposed to be upgradeable with ppa, so using apt-get update/upgrade?
i thought l.capriotti wrote something like this for the 'new' version after live-v2

- lcapriotti - 2008-09-24

succo Wrote:wasn't it supposed to be upgradeable with ppa, so using apt-get update/upgrade?
correct!

- olympia - 2008-09-24

Is there any way to exit from XBMC Live to the console, or it has to be done via ssh, while XBMC Live is running on the machine?

- topfs2 - 2008-09-24

alt+f1 will take you to console. alt+f7 will take you back to XBMC
You can ofc also go via ssh, whichever you choose.

Although in the end we would really want this to be done inside XBMC Preferably via python script. Or at the very least automated, the user shouldn't need to go out in the terminal for updates.

But this is only on the roadmap and it's not certain it will be done before Gold.

- olympia - 2008-09-24

Thanks Topfs2!

- CASHMON3Y - 2008-09-24

Ok, so in xbmc to update I hit alt+f1 then type "apt-get update" wait for it to finish then alt+f7 back into xbmc? Also is there a way to slipstream updates and skins to the live CD for easy distribution?

- olympia - 2008-09-24

alt+f1 is not working for me, there is nothing happen.

Could I do something in a wrong way (but it seems very simple), or XBMC Live is disallowing this?

- blubyu - 2008-09-24

CASHMON3Y Wrote:Ok, so in xbmc to update I hit alt+f1 then type "apt-get update" wait for it to finish then alt+f7 back into xbmc? Also is there a way to slipstream updates and skins to the live CD for easy distribution?

'apt-get update' will check for updates. If there are any updates then you need to run 'apt-get upgrade'. This will actually install the updates.

- althekiller - 2008-09-24

You need to hit ctrl+alt+f1 to drop from an X session to terminal. Once in terminal ctrl is optional so you can alt+fN to get to console N, N=7 is where your X session resides.

- CASHMON3Y - 2008-09-24

blubyu Wrote:'apt-get update' will check for updates. If there are any updates then you need to run 'apt-get upgrade'. This will actually install the updates.
Ok, thanks!

- cloud79 - 2008-09-26

But can you really update the "livecd" ?
Can i add a ppa to get the most rescent svn livecd?

- succo - 2008-09-26

i don't know if you can, but you can update an usb stick image, which will be able to install on another usb stick the updated system, i guess

- lcapriotti - 2008-09-26

succo Wrote:i don't know if you can, but you can update an usb stick image, which will be able to install on another usb stick the updated system, i guess

doesn't work that way, sorry Wink