[AEON] HOW-TO download/install/update/test Aeon from its Git repository

rickatnight11 Wrote:Absolutely. If you come across any good additions or fixes please let me know here, and I'll update the post. Always a pleasure to have my work appreciated

long time that i looked into this.. lol.

ok, then i will add it.

one recommendation i would give is that you change commandline for bash usage to git clone --depth 1 <source> as this --depth 1 switch saves lot of bandwidth because it only uses the most recent repository.

azido Wrote:long time that i looked into this.. lol.

ok, then i will add it.

one recommendation i would give is that you change commandline for bash usage to git clone --depth 1 <source> as this --depth 1 switch saves lot of bandwidth because it only uses the most recent repository.

Seconded.. +1

That makes sense. Honestly, though, I've just been using the ASMUpdate script.

Quick question. I had to redo my pc (linux) and now things are a little different. When I try to use git ~/.xbmc it is no longer there. So now where do I install the skins? When I put in cd ~/.xmbc the following error happens -bash: cd: /home/xbmc/.xbmc: No such file or directory

Hi everybody, I'm pretty new to this whole Mediacenter thing and I just started getting to know xbmc. However I am impressed by the possibilities it offers to users in terms of customization! Right now I am using Aeon skin and I am quite happy with it, except for on thing: When I enter my music library the thumbnails of the Artiosts and album cover art are pretty small, how can I change this to a kind of windows 7 mediacentre like "carpet" of covers?

Hi,

I followed the directions that were on the first page for setting up the git..etc..

I am getting this message
"clone failed. Cannot fetch branches and objects. See console output for details"

Error: comman failed

fatal: remote error:
djh/aeon.git is not a valid repository name
Visit http://support.github.com for help

pls help!

superstar22 Wrote:Hi,

I followed the directions that were on the first page for setting up the git..etc..

I am getting this message
"clone failed. Cannot fetch branches and objects. See console output for details"

Error: comman failed

fatal: remote error:
djh/aeon.git is not a valid repository name
Visit http://support.github.com for help

pls help!

me too?

anyone know another way to install aeon on ubuntu>??


actually, just played around with this and try:

git clone git://github.com/djh/aeon

think its missing the font side of things though as the menu (videos, music, settings etc) is all compressed

fonts need to be downloaded from http://www.mediafire.com/?025znmzmdmm and placed into the folder as specified in the first post

Hi,

How to i download nad unzip the fonts in XBMC live?

Hi,

followed the first few steps and have this error

xbmc@XBMCLive:~$ sudo apt-get install git-core
[sudo] password for xbmc:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package git-core


using puTTy have tried wincp and gettong error currunt SFTP session does not support your request......

Mrkennedy Wrote:Hi,

followed the first few steps and have this error

xbmc@XBMCLive:~$ sudo apt-get install git-core
[sudo] password for xbmc:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package git-core


using puTTy have tried wincp and gettong error currunt SFTP session does not support your request......

Using WinSCP won't do anything for you, as it's simply a file-transfer client. The issue is on the side of the machine you're connecting to, not the one you're connecting from. You are doing the right thing by using putty.

Your output tells me that apt-get doesn't know what git-core is, meaning in its list of "installable packages" git-core isn't listed. This is most likely because you don't have the right source loaded on your machine. Here's what I mean:

XMCLive runs on the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Ubuntu uses a package management system called Aptitude. This system allows you to install programs from a big list, rather than finding the software, downloading it, compiling it, and running it all by yourself. It also lets you update the same software, so you don't need to go worry about using the latest version. It greatly simplifies this process for you. How it works is by maintaining a list of "sources" from which it can download software. By default Ubuntu comes with several lists with a lot of software on it. By default, Ubuntu should have the software source that contains the git-core package enabled, but on your system this seems to not be the case. Either that source was removed or it was disabled.

Now that we know what's wrong, how do we fix it? I'm not an Ubuntu expert, but I know that fixing this is easiest through the Ubuntu gui. Since you're running XBMCLive, however, you don't have easy access to this gui. Chances are you'll need to do some more command-line magic to either enable or add the source that git-core is distributed through. Since I don't have the answer off the top of my head, I've created two threads for you:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=524372
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9141514

The first is a thread in the XBMCLive forums here. The second is a thread on the Ubuntu forums. Hopefuly one of these two threads will get you straightened out.