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== Installing, updating or upgrading == | == Installing, updating or upgrading == |
Revision as of 12:27, 18 September 2014
Linux Installing |
Official Ubuntu PPA |
Personal Package Archives, or PPAs are software repositories that hold compiled version of software, primarily for Ubuntu and various Ubuntu derivatives (such as Lubuntu, non-Debian versions of Linux Mint, XBMCbuntu, and many others).
The Team XBMC PPA provides the only officially supported pre-compiled binaries for Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based systems.
Repositories
The XBMC repositories are as follows:
https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ppa | ppa:team-xbmc/ppa |
Final release builds |
https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/unstable | ppa:team-xbmc/unstable |
Betas and release candidates |
https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/xbmc-nightly | ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly |
Nightly builds |
For the users looking for compile with the PPA build depends in addition to the nightly PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/xbmc-ppa-build-depends | ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-ppa-build-depends |
Build Depends |
Installing, updating or upgrading
If applicable you can check what package versions are installed in your system, this is helpful when determining what procedures to choose. |- | style="background:whitesmoke" |
How can check what current XBMC version is installed? |
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Check what XBMC versions you have access to:
sudo apt-cache policy xbmc
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How do I install XBMC? |
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After adding or removing any ppa you need to refresh your sources list and finally install XBMC, by typing:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-bin
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How do I update XBMC? |
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To update XBMC/Kodi when a new version is released, just do a general system/package or use the following commands in the terminal (or via SSH):
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-bin
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How do I upgrade XBMC? |
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After adding or removing any ppa you need to refresh your sources list and finally upgrade xbmc, by typing:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install xbmc xbmc-bin
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Why wont XBMC upgrade? |
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After following the above instructions, XBMC is still not upgraded, the main reason why this happens is because the distribution you are using, is no longer supported and has reached an end of life status.
See Current Ubuntu releases if your current distro is listed under End of life table, you will need to upgrade your OS to a supported release.
LTS releases are better for long term install and forget, installing obviously the very latest LTS release available. XBMCbuntu FAQ
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How to install a specific versions? |
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In the event you need to install either by upgrade or downgrade a specific XBMC version (a reason may be a bug or to test a specific version), the PPA providing said version active must be in your sources.list.d along with a updated list of the packages. If the packages you intend to install are on a different PPA, you should probably remove that PPA to avoid confusion.
apt-get install packagename=version
is one way to achieve this.sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc=2:13.1~git20140606.0917-gotham-0trusty xbmc-bin=2:13.1~git20140606.0917-gotham-0trusty
Hint: For e.g. You can use result of
apt-cache policy xbmc
to see the candidates <packagename><version> available to you. Note: Removing/purging any previous versions if they are greater version of the package you are looking to install is necessary.
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How can I install a beta/unstable version? |
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To install a beta/unstable version of XBMC you must first add the unstable repository, then install XBMC:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-bin
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/nightly sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-bin
Follow the prompts to add the repository, then to add the updates, and finally install the new version of XBMC. Note: You may need to restart your computer for the newly installed version to be working.
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How can I move from a beta/unstable to a stable version? |
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Check what XBMC versions you have access to by typing:
sudo apt-cache policy xbmc
The response in terminal should be something like:
xbmc: Installed: 2:13.2~git20140719.0900-beta2-0trusty Candidate: 2:13.2~git20140719.0900-beta2-0trusty Version table: *** 2:13.2~git20140719.0900-beta2-0trusty 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/unstable/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2:13.1~git20140606.0917-gotham-0trusty 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 2:12.3+dfsg1-3ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
Note: In the above example we have an unstable (team-xbmc/unstable) and the release versions (team-xbmc/ppa) available. The version with the *** is the currently installed version (unstable)
To install the release version we need to install the team-xbmc/ppa version (in the above example: "2:13.1~git20140606.0917-gotham-0trusty"). This requires the install of both the "xbmc" and the "xbmc-bin" package.
sudo apt-get install xbmc=2:13.1~git20140606.0917-gotham-0trusty xbmc-bin=2:13.1~git20140606.0917-gotham-0trusty
Note: You will get a warning you are downgrading, hit Y when asked to continue
Remove the beta/unstable repository from XBMC to clean up:
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:team-xbmc/unstable
Uninstalling or Removing
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How do I uninstall XBMC? |
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If you need to remove and purge an application and finally removing/purging also the application configurations files, do so by typing:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get remove xbmc* sudo apt-get purge xbmc*
Build Dependencies
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What are PPA build dependencies? |
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These build dependencies are versions of a library pre-packaged by Team XBMC, because the distro provided versions are behind the current requirements of XBMC. Both REAME.linux and/or README.ubuntu documents using XBMC ppa build dependencies refer to these dependencies in the Team XBMC PPA's used in conjunction, when compiling on Ubuntu or derivatives distros.
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