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

i cant see Aeon folder aftel installation

rickatnight11 Wrote: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.

Thank you very much this seems to have done the trick

FishOil Wrote:did you do an update before you ran that command?

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Mrkennedy Wrote:Thank you very much this seems to have done the trick

so what did you end up doing because I'm getting the same issue as you?

emiliom Wrote:i cant see Aeon folder aftel installation

I have the same problem

EDIT: ran the file as an administrator. working just fine now, should have just read the thread. *facepalm*

I have live version. How I enter in command line? How I come back to the xbmc main menu after?

Ctrl+Alt+F1 -F6 - to drop down to the command line
Ctrl+Alt+F7 - to get back

This is brilliant - though I wonder - why aren't there methods like this for getting all the other major skins?

I've been building my xbmc(live) on an acer revo running linux for a good month now learning as I go as I'd never used linux before. And it's tough - guides like these really really help.

Has anyone seen similar guides to do this to get other skins such as MesiaStream and Trancperancy! ?

Cheers

For those that don't find the "AEON" folders, mine appeared on :
c:\Users\bb_neo\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\skin\Auriga\

I just copied after the "Auriga" folder to C:Programs Files/XBMC/skin and add the "fonts" t it.

It works fine but when I press the "S" key and go to assistant -> Vitals , I see that AEON VERSION is still STARK 0.9 and not AURIGA. I am sure that I branched to auriga...

Fo info I am using Win7 64

Um, what do you do when you get it from GIT and it just doesn't come with a skin.xml? I have an addon.xml...

Hi rickatnight11,

Many thanks for your greatest guide 1st of all.

I am running on Ubuntu 10.04 with XBMC-Standalone 10.08, I am a beginner for xbmc and ubuntu. I did what you have listed above, but i still can't see the skin in the appearance section. I am really appreciated if you can give me a little advise here.

Best Regards,
hth0923