2011-06-26, 13:02
For anyone that wants to run a nightly build of XBMC i have made a simple
how to. Since i didn't find any info that clearly says how to do this and the
sticky post about ppa's isn't updated for a while with a clear way on how
to upgrade to nightly.
I think this will work on most standard xbmc live installs as long as you
run an officially supported linux build and doesent have any special configs.
First of all yo need to log into your xbmc box trough a terminal. If you are doing it
locally on the box just hit CTRL ALT F2 to bring up a console window or do it
remotely from your laptop/pc by using a terminal program.
For this to work you need at least Ubuntu natty, lucid or mavercik!
To check what you are running you can issue following command from terminal:
This gives me:
WARNING ! WARNING ! WARNING !
If you are new to linux and XBMC and don't want to use allot of time tinkering
with your system do not use nightly builds. They are considered unstable and
might render your mediacenter useless !
I have only tested this on my system running the version given above so
i don't guarantee that this will work on any system out there. Would
be nice to get feedback of systems that work...
Let's start upgrading from stable to unstable then
Make sure you have the latest python-software-properties package:
Then add the official XBMC unstable repo to your system:
Note:
Update your newly added repo:
Then install the new xbmc nigthly build:
Thanks to forum user hudo for this process, link to original post:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=803...count=1272
You should now have the latest possible xbmc build on your linux box.
You can test this by running the following commands from terminal:
To kill xbmc:
A problem that happened to me after i did this was that after a reboot on
my box xbmc no longer autostarted and it just gave me a tty login prompt.
To fix this you need to setup autostart again.
Create a xbmc.conf file:
Paste the following into the xbmc.conf file:
Thanks to forum user BurningSky for the nice script. The original
post can be found here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=793...stcount=12
The script was changed due to inputs from darkscout and should now
be better and improved. thanks darkscout !
You should now have xbmc autostart !
To update/upgrade your nightly build later just do:
Please give me feedback if you find any serious errors in my post.
how to. Since i didn't find any info that clearly says how to do this and the
sticky post about ppa's isn't updated for a while with a clear way on how
to upgrade to nightly.
I think this will work on most standard xbmc live installs as long as you
run an officially supported linux build and doesent have any special configs.
First of all yo need to log into your xbmc box trough a terminal. If you are doing it
locally on the box just hit CTRL ALT F2 to bring up a console window or do it
remotely from your laptop/pc by using a terminal program.
For this to work you need at least Ubuntu natty, lucid or mavercik!
To check what you are running you can issue following command from terminal:
Code:
cat /etc/*-release
This gives me:
Code:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS - XBMCLive Dharma"
WARNING ! WARNING ! WARNING !
If you are new to linux and XBMC and don't want to use allot of time tinkering
with your system do not use nightly builds. They are considered unstable and
might render your mediacenter useless !
I have only tested this on my system running the version given above so
i don't guarantee that this will work on any system out there. Would
be nice to get feedback of systems that work...
Let's start upgrading from stable to unstable then
Make sure you have the latest python-software-properties package:
Code:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties -y
Then add the official XBMC unstable repo to your system:
Code:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable
Note:
Code:
The official team xbmc ppa does currently not provide blueray
dvd playback. If you need this you could try marios ppa which has
blueray support in it. However there are reported some other problems
with this ppa so please try the official first ! If you want to try marios
ppa just do:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mario-sitz/ppa
Update your newly added repo:
Code:
sudo apt-get update
Then install the new xbmc nigthly build:
Code:
sudo apt-get install xbmc
Thanks to forum user hudo for this process, link to original post:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=803...count=1272
You should now have the latest possible xbmc build on your linux box.
You can test this by running the following commands from terminal:
Code:
sudo service xbmc start
To kill xbmc:
Code:
sudo service xbmc stop
A problem that happened to me after i did this was that after a reboot on
my box xbmc no longer autostarted and it just gave me a tty login prompt.
To fix this you need to setup autostart again.
Create a xbmc.conf file:
Code:
sudo nano /etc/init/xbmc.conf
Paste the following into the xbmc.conf file:
Code:
# xbmc-standalone
description "Autostart XBMC"
start on (filesystem and stopped udevtrigger)
stop on runlevel [06]
task
console output
emits starting-x
exec /bin/su xbmc -c "/usr/bin/startx /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/xbmc-standalone"
Thanks to forum user BurningSky for the nice script. The original
post can be found here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=793...stcount=12
The script was changed due to inputs from darkscout and should now
be better and improved. thanks darkscout !
You should now have xbmc autostart !
To update/upgrade your nightly build later just do:
Code:
sudo apt-get update
Code:
sudo apt-get install xbmc
Please give me feedback if you find any serious errors in my post.