Linux HOW-TO compile XBMC from a GIT source

boykster · 2011-03-03 21:41

Awesome - glad it worked for you. I do want to add a disclaimer that I tested my script on a Dharma LIVE installation, and no other distros of linux or builds of XBMC.

gekados · 2011-03-04 20:59

Thanks for the guide, used the step by step from post 1 and it worked flawlessly.

X3lectric · 2011-03-07 20:47

also added ppa now quite experimental but it seems to work fine so far on either, ppa will be updated as any Linux changes/improvements are introduced.

https://launchpad.net/~x3lectric/+archive/xbmc-git-head

Team XBMC is not going to offer > karmic builds going forward Eden will because of dependencies (though I dont understand why nor do i care to make sense of it) so I will offer ppa builds as long as it is possible for karmic at least.

Anything above lucid is up to team xbmc...

feedback welcome from appreciative users only.

Xenomes · 2011-03-16 19:46

X3lectric Wrote:Team XBMC is not going to offer > karmic builds going forward Eden will because of dependencies (though I dont understand why nor do i care to make sense of it) so I will offer ppa builds as long as it is possible for karmic at least.

Yeah great, I am a Karmic user. I have tons of custom settings, i hate to reinstall my system and lose all of that. Rolleyes

krijeck · 2011-03-22 12:51

wow! now running XBMC 11!!!
Thanks!

I did not manage to upgrade with the instructions of post 1 but the script from boykster in his post did the job!!
Wink

misterbeauds · 2011-04-22 21:15

when I try to sun this i get the following:make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/xbmc/setup/xbmc/xbmc/music/tags'
Copying XBMC binary to /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
install: cannot stat `xbmc.bin': No such file or directory
make: *** [install-binaries] Error 1
xbmc-live start/running, process 27583

this is of course at the end of watching text fly accross putty for a good 10 minutes.

any help?

boykster · 2011-04-27 19:35

misterbeauds Wrote:when I try to sun this i get the following:make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/xbmc/setup/xbmc/xbmc/music/tags'
Copying XBMC binary to /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
install: cannot stat `xbmc.bin': No such file or directory
make: *** [install-binaries] Error 1
xbmc-live start/running, process 27583

this is of course at the end of watching text fly accross putty for a good 10 minutes.

any help?

it sounds like one of 2 things happened - either you didn't run the script as root (not sudo, root), or the build failed, so there wasn't an xbmc.bin file to copy. Based on the error, my guess is that the build failed. I tried the script again this morning, and it built successfully on my system, so you might try again. Sometimes nightlies just don't build....

X3lectric · 2011-04-28 14:17

misterbeauds Wrote:when I try to sun this i get the following:make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/xbmc/setup/xbmc/xbmc/music/tags'
Copying XBMC binary to /usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin
install: cannot stat `xbmc.bin': No such file or directory
make: *** [install-binaries] Error 1
xbmc-live start/running, process 27583

this is of course at the end of watching text fly accross putty for a good 10 minutes.

any help?

refer to first post update 7 for eg things like this can happen that re fixed http://goo.gl/AaL1u

DejaVu · 2011-05-09 07:26

I just tried to upgrade my original XBMC-Live 10.1 install using

sudo ./XBMC_build_git.sh upgrade

but for some reason, when it reloads, it crashed straight away.

Trying sudo ./XBMC_build_git.sh refresh now

Plus, if I installed from the download version of XBMC-Live, how do I gain access via root? It seems it errors a lot when using sudo.

--EDIT--
Is it this?
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=95858

X3lectric · 2011-05-09 11:31

no sudo and its ./XBMC_build_git.sh <refresh>

including <>

it well documented on first post, please read it and you should be running as root not that it makes a great difference...

boykster Senior Member Posts: 205 Joined: Nov 2009 Reputation: 16	2011-03-03 21:41 Post: #41 Awesome - glad it worked for you. I do want to add a disclaimer that I tested my script on a Dharma LIVE installation, and no other distros of linux or builds of XBMC.
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gekados Senior Member Posts: 172 Joined: Mar 2005 Reputation: 0 Location: Stockholm	2011-03-04 20:59 Post: #42 Thanks for the guide, used the step by step from post 1 and it worked flawlessly. XBMCbuntu (build as of 121015) Asrock 330 ION -> Primare SP31.7 -> McCormack DNA-2 -> Von Schweikert VR-4 Asrock 330 ION -> Pioneer LX-5090 / Panasonic PT-AE2000
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X3lectric Closed Account Posts: 1,756 Joined: Feb 2006 Location: in a Dropbox	2011-05-09 11:31 Post: #50 no sudo and its ./XBMC_build_git.sh <refresh> including <> it well documented on first post, please read it and you should be running as root not that it makes a great difference...
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