See below for some short instructions on how to upgrade your existing XBMC Live installation to the latest SVN version. These instructions should also work for regular XBMC Linux users as well. It is particularly important to update your XBMC to the latest SVN version if you plan on using some of the latest and greatest plugins and skins. For example, after I installed the Aeon65 skin I noticed that the skin would crash when I would go to certain views... many of the people on the forums recommended upgrading to the latest XBMC build so I did exactly that...

Add the repositories -- first open a nano editor for the third party sources list:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.org.list

Then copy and paste the following respository entries:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc-svn/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Import the key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 64234534

Update your repository list

sudo apt-get update

Then do the recommended upgrades:

sudo apt-get upgrade

Now install the latest XBMC:

sudo apt-get install xbmc

And reboot your system:

sudo reboot

I should note that after the installation / upgrade, I started getting an error message about needing OpenGL rendering enabled. A simple reinstall of the NVIDIA drivers will get you back up and running. The first time I ran into this problem I was pulling my hair out trying to get it fixed -- just read this post and you'll be back up and running in no time.

Comments (7)

darren said:

	XBMClive Hi there great reading your informative articles, i am having trouble with xbmclive crashing on opening (says downloading TV show information" and sticks causing me to reboot machine. I have a dualboot setup with Windows 7 on another partition, will this method above wipe the windows 7 partition or is that safe? thanks
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March 04, 2010
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XBMCRocks said:

	Thank you! Hey there, I found your blog and just wanted to say thanks!! It's help me a great great deal!
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Christian said:

	Thanx Nice blog! It is certainly not every day that I come across a blog like this where I actually want to read other posts. So thanks for that.
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May 04, 2010
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Josh Lyon said:

XBMCLive + Windows 7 @Darren: If you already have XBMCLive and Windows7 running in a dual boot configuration, running this upgrade should not affect your Windows7 partition. As the instructions above note, it adds a special 'development' repository to your list of (Linux) update sources. It then updates the list of available updates, then upgrades to the latests versions of available software (not only XBMC, but everything on the Linux/XBMCLive setup).

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john mish said:

	... i am having trouble with xbmclive crashing on opening (says downloading TV show information" and sticks causing me to reboot machine.
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Brandje said:

	Thanks! Thanks alot, ive been searching allover for an easy way to update my live install,'now I'm finally able to run the aeon65 skin without crashes
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June 22, 2010
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Leah E. Garrity said:

	... Some minor problem for me is that, I was not able to turn off or reboot my ION after the update and so I was forced to reinstall everything. I do need some dissertation help from you guys.
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