[Guide] Upgrade XBMC Live 10.1 (Dharma) installation into Eden

This worked for me on a fresh Dharma 10.1 Live CD / Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Install. However it does take a little over an hour on an Zotac IONITX-A-U. Does anyone know how I can make this a LiveCD or some sort of backup starting point? (so I can distribute to other systems with same specs?) Thanks for the tutorial.

Thanks a lot for working this out. It allowed me to retain most settings I used in 10.1. I am having a problem though...after following the installation instructions, it seems the user for xbmc does not have permissions to do things (such as download skins or save a skin preference). Every time I download a skin, it shows up in my list of enabled addons but after reboot it's gone and if I try to change a skin from confluence, it doesn't change...indicating I don't have permissions to save a preference.

I went to /user/share/ and noticed that all files and subdirectories of the xbmc directory had the owner of root.root so I ran a chmod -R xbmc.xbmc xbmx/ to change the owner of all files in the xbmc directory to my xbmc user and this did not help. Any suggestions?

Here are my logs for the action of downloading and trying to select a new skin:

http://pastebin.me/bc23773578d79a55882d7ced4e06738d

It seems as though I'm having a similar issue to what is posted here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=86817. Is my xbmc trying to download incompatible addons from the 10.1 repo??

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sorry for the repeat posts....but I found this in part of the logs I posted:

21:56:44 T:3077924672 DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0xb4cf0d90) http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/dharma/sk....0.zip.md5

indeed it is trying to load Darhma addons...


Although I looked at /usr/share/xbmc/addons/repository.xbmc.org/addon.xml and the contents are such:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<addon id="repository.xbmc.org"
name="XBMC.org Add-ons"
version="2.0.3"
provider-name="Team XBMC">
<requires>
<import addon="xbmc.addon" version="11.0"/>
</requires>
<extension point="xbmc.addon.repository"
name="Official XBMC.org Add-on Repository">
<info compressed="true">http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/eden/addons.xml</info>
<checksum>http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/eden/addons.xml.md5</checksum>
<datadir zip="true">http://mirrors.xbmc.org/addons/eden</datadir>
<hashes>true</hashes>
</extension>
...

So I'm a bit confused where it is referencing the old addon repos, I will look further...

(2012-04-15 09:42)getsome Wrote:  This worked for me on a fresh Dharma 10.1 Live CD / Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Install. However it does take a little over an hour on an Zotac IONITX-A-U. Does anyone know how I can make this a LiveCD or some sort of backup starting point? (so I can distribute to other systems with same specs?) Thanks for the tutorial.

Creating a new Live CD is a bit complicated. But you can copy the once compiled setup files to a new box with Dharma.
Skip the "make distclean" after compile in the tutorial, and then copy the "xbmc" folder over to another Dharma 10.1 install. Change your location to "xbmc" and then just run this on the new box:

"apt-get install make"
"make install prefix=/usr"

All the setup files are already compiled once in the "xbmc" folder on the first machine. Then the "make install prefix=/usr" command will put the xbmc files into the right places.
Will save you some time.

fyi this fixed my issues:

root@XBMCLive:/home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/Database# mkdir backup
root@XBMCLive:/home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/Database# mv *.db backup

I needed to delete all the userdata databases so that Eden could create new ones....the old Dharma dbs can't be used by Eden.

(2012-04-09 23:07)kitana Wrote:  

(2012-04-09 18:49)Dannywallace Wrote:  Thanks for this. Followed the instructions and appears to have installed ... any reason though that in the Hardware info about XBMMC it says "XBMC 12.0 APLHA1" rather than 11.0?

Mine is also displaying the same "XBMC 12.0 ALPHA1" as github sources are constantly changing https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc
I was able to compile/install XBMC 11.0 stable release from source http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/source/...1.0.tar.gz using the same instructions but have since gone back to using github exclusively

So does this mean I'm not actually using a stable version of XBMC? How can I get to v11.0 or should I just stick with what's been installed?

you (appear) to have kinda blown past a step there...

"If you're using a Remote Control, you could install and setup the drivers now."

Qué?

(2012-04-22 12:20)Dannywallace Wrote:  

(2012-04-09 23:07)kitana Wrote:  

(2012-04-09 18:49)Dannywallace Wrote:  Thanks for this. Followed the instructions and appears to have installed ... any reason though that in the Hardware info about XBMMC it says "XBMC 12.0 APLHA1" rather than 11.0?

Mine is also displaying the same "XBMC 12.0 ALPHA1" as github sources are constantly changing https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc
I was able to compile/install XBMC 11.0 stable release from source http://mirrors.xbmc.org/releases/source/...1.0.tar.gz using the same instructions but have since gone back to using github exclusively

So does this mean I'm not actually using a stable version of XBMC? How can I get to v11.0 or should I just stick with what's been installed?

I'd stick with what you currently have (XBMC 12.0 ALPHA1). I didn't notice much difference between 11 vs 12, at least how I normally use XBMC. I will eventually update my build again via github sources per supplied instructions.

Hi,

Attempted this morning to follow the guide, and had to do twice as first crashed.

Got to and error that missing libssh, so install four packages and tried again.

Along a bit further this time, but failed at 'Checking with -ltimexml --no" and can't get past this.

Anyone able to help?

Small background. Installed of Dharma Live cd, 10.0

Did apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and rebooted before trying this guide.

Funny thing is, XBMC still says its at 10.0, and not 10.1.

Any help would be appreciated.

Rob