[darkscout]

Debian is hands down the easiest distro in my mind to understand. The Debian Foundation is hard core with their methodologies and stuff doesn't whimsically make it into the repositories. (unlike PPAs which everyone and their brother seem to be able to setup.)

I guess I don't know what to tell you.

1) Install Debian.
2) Edit /etc/apt/sources.list so that you have unstable & testing.

Code:

deb http://mirrors.geeks.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://mirrors.geeks.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.steadfast.net/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

3) Tell Debian that you want Unstable picked over Stable (or testing).

Code:

echo -n "Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing
Pin-Priority: 800

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian,a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 600" > /etc/apt/preferences.d/02pinning

4) Update And Upgrade.

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[MarkosJal]

I got through the install and "upgrade"

I am not sure I undersyand however as my version now shows
cat /etc/debian_version
wheezy/sid


Why wheezy?


Anyway I installed xbmc-bin and at launch I get
python: can't open file '/usr/share/xbmc/FEH.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory


SO I thought maybe I needed xbmc-data
and at trying to install I get ..

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xbmc-data : Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 10.1+git20111129-0.1) but 10.1+git20110912-0.1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages



Have you actually run this version?

[MarkosJal]

Okay I searched and found the .deb packages for the 10.1+git20110912-0.1 . I just installed the debs and ignored that there was a newer version in a software channel. And XBMC started . Looks like Eden pre release though from Oct 17 2011 which does not coincide with what the file implies.

CPU usage is at 100% on XBMC gui, a mouse move takes 2 seconds to update and keystrokes even longer



Not too good was expecting dharma like the 10.1 seems to imply. I already know the eden skins are more resource intensive.

[Chris!]

Not too good was expecting dharma like the 10.1 seems to imply. I already know the eden skins are more resource intensive.

Surely not with dirty regions enabled

[darkscout]

wheezy/sid because the base install and current testing is wheezy. There are plenty of packages that don't really get updated that often that aren't newer in sid than they are in wheezy. So it's a hybrid Wheezy/Sid setup.

Have you actually run this version?

No. I compile my own.

If you intend on actually using files from that repository. I would add the repositories to your list, not download and install the deb with dpkg. It sort of breaks the apt-get mentality.

http://debian-multimedia.org/debian-m-unstable.php
Find a mirror with PPC.

Code:

deb http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia unstable main
deb http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia testing main
deb http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia stable main

Okay I searched and found the .deb packages for the 10.1+git20110912-0.1 . I just installed the debs and ignored that there was a newer version in a software channel. And XBMC started . Looks like Eden pre release though from Oct 17 2011 which does not coincide with what the file implies.

Like I said above. Downloading and installing debs whilly nilly makes baby angels cry. Install the repositories. Update. apt-get install.

Where are you seeing Oct 17?