XBMCbuntu - Can someone clarify statement from xbmc web page?

Plaguester · 2012-05-14 04:13

Sorry, by "GUI" I mean any program that has a Graphical User Interface. You should search the repository for "Disk Utility". You can also search Google or the repositories for "Linux backup tools" and see what you can find.

KidKiwi · 2012-05-14 04:16

(2012-05-14 04:13)Plaguester Wrote: Sorry, by "GUI" I mean any program that has a Graphical User Interface. You should search the repository for "Disk Utility". You can also search Google or the repositories for "Linux backup tools" and see what you can find.

Thx dude...much appreciated.

lordindy · 2012-05-31 22:20

Am I missing something? It seems there are no Linux nightlies since August 2011... Just Windows and OSX. Are we supposed to compile then?

pumkinut · 2012-06-01 02:39

As far as I know, there are no officially built nightlies yet. Getting bleeding edge Linux-based XBMC is possible by one of two options that I know of. The first is to add another person's repository: nathan-renniewaldock

Code:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-nightly

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install xbmc

That will install the latest Debian/Ubuntu-based XBMC nightly with Audio Engine (AE) integrated. I've tried it on two machines, but it always crashes on both due to a pulse audio initialization error, so YMMV.

The other option, and it sounds way more complicated than it actually is, is to compile your own build. I was a little intimidated at the prospect, and I've been using Linux on and off for over 10 years. I can't take credit for documenting the process, but I'll gladly share. This also assumes that you have an nVidia GPU (although I threw in VAAPI as well). It disables pulse audio and crystalhd integration, so if you want/need those options, just change the disable statements to enable.

Code:

sudo apt-get install git-core

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

sudo apt-get install make g++ gcc gawk pmount libtool libgl1-mesa-glx libva-utils libx11-6 libva-glx1 libva-x11-1 vainfo libva1 libva-dev nasm yasm automake cmake gperf zip unzip bison libsdl-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libfribidi-dev liblzo2-dev libfreetype6-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libasound2-dev python-sqlite libglew-dev libcurl3 libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libmad0-dev libogg-dev libvorbisenc2 libsmbclient-dev libmysqlclient-dev libpcre3-dev libdbus-1-dev libhal-dev libhal-storage-dev libjasper-dev libfontconfig-dev libbz2-dev libboost-dev libenca-dev libxt-dev libxmu-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libpulse-dev mesa-utils libcdio-dev libsamplerate-dev libmpeg3-dev libflac-dev libiso9660-dev libass-dev libssl-dev fp-compiler gdc libmpeg2-4-dev libmicrohttpd-dev libmodplug-dev libssh-dev gettext cvs python-dev libyajl-dev libboost-thread-dev libplist-dev libusb-dev libudev-dev

sudo apt-get install autopoint libltdl-dev

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get build-dep xbmc

sudo su -- root

cd $HOME

git clone git://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git xbmc

cd xbmc

service lightdm stop

./bootstrap

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-vdpau --disable-pulse --disable-crystalhd  --enable-vaapi

make

make install prefix=/usr

service lightdm start

The long "apt-get install" portion installs a slew of tools needed for compiling, and then the "apt-get build-dep xbmc" installs all the dependencies, i.e. the software that XBMC needs to build and fully function. If you have any or all of the needed tools, apt just passes them over. After that, you clone the Team-XBMC git repository (you grab all the source code necessary), stop the display manager, ala "service lightdm stop".

The "./bootstrap" command starts a script that runs several reconfiguration commands for various libraries and XBMC components.
The "./configure" command is pretty self explanatory, it configures all the necessary components to match the setup of your system, so that compilation works correctly.
The "make" and "make install" commands do exactly what they say. Make is the actual compilation stage, i.e. it compiles all the source code from all the different parts into a working XBMC setup, then "make install" takes the compiled components and installs them into the directories where they need to be.The make portion is what usually takes the longest.
All that's left is to start the display manager again.

After all of that's done, you can start XBMC and have it be the freshest build you can get. That said, Frodo is still pre-alpha, so expect bugs and issues if you want to go down that path.

lordindy Junior Member Posts: 43 Joined: Apr 2011 Reputation: 0	2012-05-31 22:20 Post: #13 Am I missing something? It seems there are no Linux nightlies since August 2011... Just Windows and OSX. Are we supposed to compile then?
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