[outleradam]

Team XBMC endorses the use of the following command

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc

addrepo lets you update the sources.lst easily.

To install addrepo:

Code:

sudo wget http://mac4deb.googlepages.com/addrepo -O /usr/bin/addrepo
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/addrepo

then you can just type

Code:

addrepo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
addrepo deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
sudo apt-get install xbmc

hope this helps. Just ran across it 5 minutes ago.

[jmarshall]

Or you can just use the built-in adding of repos (a one-liner) as per the wiki.

[prae5]

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc

[althekiller]

"sudo wget" dumbest thing you can tell someone who doesn't know anything about linux to do.

[outleradam]

^^ why's that? It works efficiently.

This definately wins

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc

[althekiller]

Say I modify your URL to point at my leet root kit... sudo isn't a magic fix all, until you understand that, you should never tell someone else to use it.

[outleradam]

Whoah.. I just followed directions I found on the coder's website. It worked, I thought I should post about it. I understand the security risks of sudo. Sudo should only be used when making an administrative change. It's required in this case to put the file in /usr/bin.

Since there is a better way, I will now edit the top to add the better way. I've been wanting a program like this for a while now for use with my media center, running XBMC and mythtv backend. I like cutting edge PPAs and hope they fix problems.

Are you able to edit my posts without a trace Al?

I dunno, did this leave a trace? I CBA to edit people's posts unless they're linking to copyrighted materials or some shit. If you're accusing me of editing your posts, no I haven't. Besides this one obviously. -atk