[thescragster]

Hi everyone,

We have had quite a few reports of problems when trying to install XBMC onto Apple TV 2G. Looking for some solutions to the two following problems:

1.
Apple-TV:~ root# apt-get update
Hit http://nitosoft.com Release.gpg
Ign http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ Release.gpg
Ign http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ Release
Hit http://nitosoft.com Release
Hit http://apt.awkwardtv.org stable Release.gpg
Ign http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ Packages
Hit http://apt.awkwardtv.org stable Release
Ign http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ Packages
Ign http://nitosoft.com Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://apt.awkwardtv.org stable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Err http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ Packages
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Hit http://nitosoft.com Packages
W: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/stv2/./Packages.gz HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Apple-TV:~ root# apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
E: Couldn’t find package org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
Apple-TV:~ root#

2.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2: Depends: org.xbmc.xbmc-seatbeltunlock but it is not going to be installed



Any help would be awesome

[davilla]

Apple-TV:~ root# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list
deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./


note the period in front of the final slash.

[daemon23]

I'm having the same issue. /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list matches what you (davilla) posted. I do notice if I point my browser at http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2, I see what appears to be a directory listing. There's a "Packages.bz2" and a "Packages", but no "Packages.gz".

[thescragster]

Can anyone provide any solution to this? I am still having reports of lots of users having this same error.

Thanks

[daemon23]

Further examination suggests the fact that there is no .gz file may not be the real problem. I think it may be that apt-get update is ignoring (Ign) all the files it tries to fetch from http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2, though I don't know why, as I don't know enough about apt to say why it does what it does. Not seeing anything in /var/lib/apt/lists that suggests it's already loaded the packages files.

However, I did find manually grabbing the .debs via wget and dpkg installation worked.

[thescragster]

Could you please give steps as to how you used wget and dpkg to install?

Thanks

[g-off]

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Ins...MC_on_ATV2

If it has already been installed before look at the section about upgrading to nightlys

[daemon23]

Sure.
1) Take a look at the Packages file in the apt repo (http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2/Packages) for the latest versions. In this case, .//deb/org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2_10.0-9_iphoneos-arm.deb and .//deb/org.xbmc.xbmc-seatbeltunlock_1.0-4_iphoneos-arm.deb.
2) Pick a directory you don't mind downloading them to, like /tmp, and cd to it.
3) wget http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2/deb/org...s-arm.deb; wget http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2/deb/org...os-arm.deb
4) dpkg -i http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2/deb/org...os-arm.deb
4a) Whoops, didn't install, missing dependencies! (if it did, skip to step 5)
4b) apt-get -f install
5) dpkg -i http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2/deb/org...os-arm.deb

It's installed now, though sadly without apt-get update working, so updates will be manual.

(You may need to copy the links out of those abbreviated versions.)

[thescragster]

That's great, i'll pass that onto our readers - thanks again

[daemon23]

hahah, zomg. Okay, I've got it figured out: COPY AND PASTE THOSE INSTRUCTIONS.

thescragster, your problem was you mistyped the path in the xbmc.list file. Yours says "deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/stv2 ./", not "deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./".

Mine was actually "deb http://mirrors.xmbc.org/apt/atv2 ./".

So, it's probably worth putting in a troubleshooting FAQ if this problem is common that seeing "Ign http://mirrors.xbmc.org ./ Packages" and "W: Failed to fetch http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2/./Packages.gz HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found" during your apt-get update step (or something you dyslexically assume to be that), this indicates a typo in your xbmc.list.