Install XBMC on ubuntu server 11.04

Hello all,

Im following the following steps to install my xbmc server.

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties –y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/unstable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install xbmc xinit x11-xserver-utils xbmc-live -y
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current –y
sudo apt-get install alsa –y
sudo alsamixer
sudo apt-get install lirc -y

xbmc gets installed on my home dir and after reboot everything works as it's supposed.

However if i replace sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mario-sitz/ppa i get an error while installing. This is the error i get:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xbmc-live.postinst: 165: cannot create /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/20-xbmclive.pkla: Directory nonexistent
dpkg: error processing xbmc-live (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
i fix this with the following command:
sudo apt-get install policykit-1

After this i remove xbmc
sudo apt-get remove xbmc* and reinstall xbmc. Everything goes ok now but after a reboot my screen stays black. Also xbmc directory is now /usr/share/xbmc instead of my home folder.

Does anyone know what im doing wrong?
Thank you in advance

I've had the same prob,
but after reinstalling xbmc-live it got fixed.

Finally found the solution:

Sudo nano /etc/uxlaunch/uxlaunch

I HAD TO REPLACE:
tty=8
session=/usr/bin/xbmc-standalone

WITH

tty=2
session=/usr/bin/xbmc

Up to solving the next problem. With the mario ppa i dont have menu sounds ( i do with the unstable xbmc ppa )( something to do with pulse ? )

I was wondering if I needed to install from the unstable repo first or if the ppa:mario-sitz/ppa repo will have everything I need to do a full install? Second I just wanted to clarify what was meant by bluray support...Are we talking about the ability to use menu's and play blurays straight from a bluray drive on my HTPC? Thanks!

Nathan

The repository ppa:mario-sitz/ppa contains full XBMC, there is no need to install XBMC from other repositories first.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=824...tcount=104:

• libbluray supports playback of Blu-ray's stripped of DRM ('ripped' blu-rays). Either in *.iso or folder structure form.
• libbluray also supports the following two types of menus (or better 'authoring modes'): HDMV and BD-J (Blu-ray Disc Java)
• XBMC supports playback of 'ripped' Blu-rays (either in *.iso or folder form) through libbluray
• XBMC does not support the navigation ('menus') part of libbluray
  

nmiller Wrote:I was wondering if I needed to install from the unstable repo first or if the ppa:mario-sitz/ppa repo will have everything I need to do a full install? Second I just wanted to clarify what was meant by bluray support...Are we talking about the ability to use menu's and play blurays straight from a bluray drive on my HTPC? Thanks!

Nathan