XBMC Ubuntu PPAs (precompiled PPA builds for Ubuntu)

Great!

Thanks for your help Topfs2 I will give it a try as soon as I get home tonight.

Hello,

About the Add & Remove programs application, I think it doesn't search in the software repositories as synaptic does. You might find some application in Synaptic and not in the Add & Remove programs application.

Basically, it's better to go in System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager

Awsome thanks for this thread, first time, I have got xbmc to run under linux..

Just need to get my network and ntfs drive shared now any tips? oh and warnings on the mint theme, I can't get back to any other skin, and need to find where to edit the config manually. Appologies if there is a simple way but I couldnt work it out.

Broads Wrote:Awsome thanks for this thread, first time, I have got xbmc to run under linux..

Just need to get my network and ntfs drive shared now any tips? oh and warnings on the mint theme, I can't get back to any other skin, and need to find where to edit the config manually. Appologies if there is a simple way but I couldnt work it out.

I'm not sure if this is the solution you are looking for, but I wanted to share an external drive and was having a lot of trouble. My solution was to take the entire contents of the drive and put that into a folder on the drive. Essentially you are making no changes, just adding a folder layer. Then you make a link of that folder and put the link in your home folder (you know, the empty one with the folders for videos, pictures, music, etc.). Doesn't really matter where. I put my link in the videos folder, but probably any folder will do. Now you should be able to right click on the link (not the original folder, the link (aka shortcut)) and get the share folder option.

Voila.

I also had the same problem w/ the Mint theme. I'm not sure how I got it to go back. Just started pressing keyboard buttons. Somewhere in the QW-AS region sends you back to the setttings menu, I think. Then, of course, you should have no problem returning to a slightly more manageable (if less pretty) theme.

Um. That's the QW-AS region of the keyboard. You know, like QWERTY and ASDFGH

If you remove the mint theme with sudo apt-get remove xbmc-skin-mint and restart XBMC you will automagically be running another theme (PM3 I think)

I tried the Mint theme and ... I understand the problem now :-) . There is no menu item for settings. So you need to type on "s" (as in system) to get the entries. Then you can select the new theme you want.

S! See, I knew it was somewhere around there.

LOL..

Thanks Guys, I'll try pressing S when I'm in linux next.

After reviewing the packages I think they made a mistake with the facilities of the skins, skins are installed at home (.xbmc / skin) and not in the directory / usr / share / xbmc / skin as they can not read ( at least I do). will have to find another way to install the skins as a package deb can not install a home.