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Kafluke · 2012-05-21, 21:09

I have successfully setup my Android Tablet to dual boot an ICS ROM and Ubuntu Oneiric. I did this with the sole intent of installing XBMC on the linux boot so I can have XBMC running on a tablet.

I can't seem to get it to install. Here is a screenshot of the error:

john.cord · 2012-05-22, 02:03

Because XBMC wont run on an ARM Android Tablet.

Kafluke · 2012-05-22, 16:21

Well that's too bad. It will run on a raspberry pi why not something with more power? Is is just the fact that nobody has compiled the code for it?

Sorry, I'm not trying to be cynical I just truly don't know how it all works.

john.cord · (This post was last modified: 2012-05-23, 02:14 by john.cord.)

EDIT: There IS a XBMC for Tegra...

Kafluke · (This post was last modified: 2012-05-22, 17:37 by Kafluke.)

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes"

BTW, you understand that I'm trying to install this on Ubuntu Linux right? Not Android?

So what I'm running is a ARM Linux tablet, not a ARM Android Tablet.

**wsnipex** · 2012-05-22, 18:01

There is XBMC for arm, but launchpad ppas don't provide arm packages. You'll need to compile from source or find some prebuilt xbmc package for your processor.

**Prof Yaffle** · 2012-05-22, 18:56

There's clearly "XBMC for ARM" because there's XBMC for Raspberry Pi and this uses an ARM11 (ARMv6 codeset) processor. The ASUS Transformer uses an NVidia Tegra 2 chip which is ARMv7.

So... wsnipex has the answer I'd pursue... and post back how you get on, you may be missing libraries that you'll also have to source/adapt/compile. But you've really whet my appetite here, and I'm off to look at the XDA Developers' forum... :-)

Kafluke · 2012-05-22, 19:18

All you'll find inside the XDA Dev forum on this is me linking to this thread. I'm not a programmer so I don't know how to compile. I can follow steps though easily enough. If I could get this thing to run XBMC it would truly be the ULTIMATE hand held device. (Dual boot with XBMC and Android are you kidding me?)

Kafluke · 2012-05-22, 19:39

Okay so I downloaded and installed "Sourcery CodeBench Lite Edition for ARM GNU/Linux" (cross-compiler) on my Ubuntu x86 laptop. Now I guess I need the xbmc source code? Is that right? I'm a complete idiot and really have no idea what I'm doing.

Kafluke · (This post was last modified: 2012-05-22, 23:39 by Kafluke.)

*update*

Okay, I've downloaded and installed a cross compiler for ARM on my Linux PC. I've followed http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...ource_code guide to get the XBMC source code. Now my "linux buddy" is telling me that I have to point "./configure" to my newly installed cross compiler. How do I do that? (He's gone home for the day).

So in this guide I'm on the step that says "Default compile and install". I've stopped there and haven't gone any further.

FishOil · 2012-05-23, 01:03

You did a sudo apt-get update before trying to install right?

Kafluke · 2012-05-23, 01:33

Yes.

Kafluke · (This post was last modified: 2012-05-23, 02:12 by Kafluke.)

Okay so here's XBMC running on a Tegra2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3xZCd0XUPQ

and more info on Tegra 2

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=98211

Kafluke · 2012-05-24, 20:45

I can't get a cross compiler to work so I'm now trying to compile xbmc directly on the transformer. LOL, I doubt this will work.

Kafluke · (This post was last modified: 2012-05-24, 23:06 by Kafluke.)

Following this guide:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW..._for_Linux

I'm on this step:

Code:
Here is the magic command to get the build dependencies (used to compile the version on the PPA).

$ sudo apt-get build-dep xbmc

After running this command I get this output

Code:
Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Note, selecting 'libglew1.6dev' instead of 'libglew-dev'

Note, selecting 'libjpeg62-dev' instead of 'libjpeg-dev'

Note, selecting 'libsamplerate0-dev' instead of 'libsamplerate-dev'

Note, selecting 'libfontconfig1-dev' instead of 'libfontconfig-dev'

Note, selecting 'libsdl1.2-dev' instead of 'libsdl-dev'

E: Build-Depends dependency for xmbc cannot be satisfied because the package libcec-dev cannot be found

I've looked and looked and can't figure out how to install "libcec-dev". I've added the Pulse Eight PPA and tried to install libcec-dev and it can't find the package to install. I don't know how to get past this.