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The Ubuntu Repo is slightly different, as mentioned in this thread, so it was built on another date. The 3-24-2012 one is going to give you more features, though.

(2012-05-30 04:36)Not Sure Wrote:  

(2012-05-30 03:03)xbmcliveuser Wrote:  One reason I'm a bit hesitant is because I tried looking in the repository using a web browser and when I got to here:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/u...6/Packages

It APPEARS that the only package available for precise is xbmc-ppa-keyring.

That's what I was seeing and I couldn't figure out if I was doing it wrong or what. After spending a lot of time learning about how to pin packages in apt I realized that there really isn't anything there, gave up on the team-xbmc PPA and used this one instead:

https://launchpad.net/~nathan-renniewald...bmc-stable

It would be nice if this was documented somewhere other than many pages deep in the sticky installation thread. Even then, the post doesn't say "HEY EVERYBODY THIS IS WHERE YOU GET XBMC NOW BECAUSE TEAM-XBMC REPO IS BORKED!" it says something like "You can use my PPA if you wanna fix [some very specific issue that nobody has anymore because the post is talking about an Eden beta or something]".

Anyway, the first thing you want to do is remove xbmc and xbmc-bin packages with your package manager of choice (you won't lose anything since this doesn't touch your ~/.xbmc/ directory). Then add the PPA I linked above and reinstall both packages.

This fixes the HTML entities bug as well as the ISO file playback bug that the Ubuntu install of XBMC has.

I confirm this too. Stumbled on the quoted post quite by chance. Solved my problems of ISO and VIDEO_TS.IFO playback.

I installed from the Nathan Rennie-Waldock PPA a couple of days ago, and everything seems to be working great now. I first used Synaptic to uninstall xbmc and xbmc-bin, then did:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-stable
sudo apt-get update

And then used Synaptic to reinstall xbmc and xbmc-bin. Thanks for the information on the Nathan Rennie-Waldock PPA!