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| Upgrade XBMC Live to latest SVN |
| Written by Josh Lyon | |||
| Monday, 08 February 2010 22:33 | |||
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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 Instructions2010-02-08These 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 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.
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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
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March 04, 2010
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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March 13, 2010
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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
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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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.
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May 27, 2010
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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
Thanks
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
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September 07, 2010
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Thanks for sharing!
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.
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September 10, 2010
command not found
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
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October 06, 2010
Command Not Found: Answer
@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
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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?
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November 06, 2010
Couldn't find package...
@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?
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November 07, 2010
Package already installed
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
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December 14, 2010
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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.
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June 04, 2011
External Drives
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?
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June 15, 2011
Thx
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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August 21, 2011
Little Tikes Swing
Hey excellent reading through your own educational content articles, i'm having problems along with xbmclive crashes upon starting (states downloading it Television show information" as well as stays leading to me personally in order to restart device. I've the dualboot set up along with Home windows 7 upon an additional partition, may this process over clean the actual home windows 7 partition or even is actually which secure?
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November 30, 2011
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thx
sweet thanks for the help and thanks for keeping the instructions short that helps my short attention span lol
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December 08, 2011
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January 06, 2012
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January 13, 2012
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