Upgrade XBMC Live to latest SVN
Written by Josh Lyon   
Monday, 08 February 2010 22:33

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...

Installing from the PPA builds can be risky, so it's highly recommended that you back up any critical information. If you accidentally break something during the ppa upgrade, keep in mind you can always re-install from one of the official builds. That being said, I recently upgraded to the Dharma Beta1 install in under 5 minutes with these commands:

Updated Instructions

(2010-09-06)

Run the below commands via shell / terminal and your box should install the updates and reboot with the new version of XBMC installed.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc-svn/ppa
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc
sudo reboot

Original Instructions

2010-02-08

These are the original instructions that used to be on this blog post. They use a more manual method of adding the PPA repositories which is confusing for some people. They also explicitly identify with the Ubuntu 'Jaunty' build and are generally just confusing for most people. I've left them here for the time being for reference purposes, but may archive them into another post in the future.

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 (27)

XBMClive
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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
darren , March 04, 2010
Thank you!
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Hey there, I found your blog and just wanted to say thanks!! It's help me a great great deal!
XBMCRocks , March 13, 2010 | url
Thanx
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Nice blog! smilies/grin.gif

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.
Christian , May 04, 2010
XBMCLive + Windows 7
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@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).
Josh Lyon , May 18, 2010
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i am having trouble with xbmclive crashing on opening (says downloading TV show information" and sticks causing me to reboot machine.
john mish , May 27, 2010 | url
Thanks!
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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 smilies/smiley.gif
Brandje , June 22, 2010
Thanks
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Been bookmarking your blog for a while now to keep my XBMC up to date. Great articles. I was just about to upgrade to Dharma so I decided to read this post thinking it would be a good reference even though it's months old. But it looks like you just updated it yesterday! Great stuff.

Thanks man and cheers
Parker , September 07, 2010 | url
Thanks for sharing!
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I just used your updated instructions to go from 9.11 to 10 beta 1. I did not reboot and watched my TV as XBMC simply restarted. I had been running a version of XBMCFreak's Live CD. This seems to be working perfectly though. Thank you again for taking the time to document and share it. Much appreciated.
Chris McQ. , September 10, 2010
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Upgraded from 9.11 xbmcfreak to 10.0 beta2 with no problems! Thanks
patnyc , September 23, 2010
command not found
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Hi
found your blog, seems so easy so thanks for your efforts
but when I putty in and try the command
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc-svn/ppa
I get the error message
sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found
I am running Linux XBMCLive 2.6.31-16-generic #53 ubunti
I am I doing something really silly!!?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Mark
Mark , October 06, 2010
Command Not Found: Answer
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@Mark: If you are getting the 'command not found' when trying to use add-apt-repository, you may need to install the python-software-properties first:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
Josh Lyon , October 29, 2010
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Hi, thanks for the post! I am having the same problem as Mark, but when I try to intall the python-software-properties, I get "E: Couldn't find package python-software-properties". Any ideas?
Dave , November 06, 2010
Couldn't find package...
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@Dave-nWhen you were trying the sudo apt-get install python-software-properties command, did you first run sudo apt-get update to make sure your local repository (of software updates/installers) was up to date?
Josh Lyon , November 07, 2010
Package already installed
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Found my way here from your update post on the XBMC forums...

I got the 'command not found' response to add-apt-repository, so I did:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

it reported that python-software-properties was already up to date and set to manual install. A reboot didn't seem to make any difference. Do I need to manually install this? if so how?

TIA!!
FreeMan
FreeMan , December 14, 2010
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Veri good post!Thanks
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Great blog. Thanks for sharing your expertize. Keep it up!smilies/wink.gif

Josh
JKosh , April 22, 2011
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I decided to read this post thinking it would be a good reference even though it's months old. But it looks like you just updated it yesterday! Great stuff.
jawad , June 04, 2011
External Drives
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Thanks for these instructions. I think they worked but it has the side effect of making XBMC not recognising my external USB hard drives any more. Did you have this problem?
John , June 15, 2011
Thx
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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
Server kaufen , August 21, 2011
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XBMC Lover , September 03, 2011
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