HOW-TO:Install Kodi for iOS: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 01:43, 26 October 2011

1. Tap the Cydia icon on your homescreen.	2. Go to Manage - > Sources -> Edit -> Add (Sources -> Edit -> Add on iPad) 3. Type in "http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/ios/" (Without the quotation marks) File:Repo.PNG	4. Tap on the teamXBMC source.
5. Tap on the XBMC-iOS icon. File:Install2.PNG	6. Tap install, then confirm.	7. Let it install.
8. After the install finishes, close Cydia and open an SSH application (on the iOS device or on a computer) to install the latest nightly build:

A list of changes can be found on https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commits

NOTE: You must install the Cydia version before you can install nightly builds. You only need to install the Cydia version once.

Open http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/darwin/ios/ in your browser and copy the url of the most recent file in that listing
In that url you just copied, make note of the file name after "../ios/". For example it will look something like "xbmc-20110822-e391fde-master-ios.deb"
Open up your terminal/ssh application and enter the following commands:
Note: it is possible to run a terminal application from an iPhone/iPod/iPad, meaning you can install/upgrade without a computer. Instructions for this, as well as GUI alternatives, are coming later
```
ssh [email protected]
```
You will be asked for a password: default password is alpine

Continue to enter the following commands:

apt-get install wget

wget URL-FROM-STEP-1-HERE

dpkg -i FILE-NAME-FROM-STEP-2-HERE

rm FILE-NAME-FROM-STEP-2-HERE

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 == Installing from Cydia ==
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 <big>'''5.'''</big> Tap on the XBMC-iOS icon.<br/>
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 <big>'''8.'''</big> After the install finishes, close Cydia and open an SSH application (on the iOS device or on a computer) to install the latest nightly build:
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