[vikjon0]

What does the Package XBMC do?

xbmc
The Full XBMC meta package

It is a meta package which I guess means that you do not need it, but why not make life easy and install according to the wiki?

There seem to be a working PPA now
http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=397...tcount=479

[Chugo]

how do we check what version we currently have installed?

[Novin]

how do we check what version we currently have installed?

dpkg -l | grep xbmc