[LINUX] XBMC Ubuntu PPAs (precompiled builds)

[eversmann]

I would suggest compiling from source until another release with intrepid support goes out the door. Actually, it's very easy to do and works great.

[purespin]

Looks like intrepid PPA has been posted already :-)

[LAW-Mastermind]

Thank you for the intrepid PPA installing right now
Installed, and it works like a charm, THANK YOU. I just love XBMC

EDIT: XBMC works with pulseaudio, the menu sounds are a bit behind, biut thats no problem to me.
Remember to activate vsync within XBMC if you use nvidia driver and deactivate flipping in nvidia control panel.
From time to time it freezes upon downloading fanarts
If you have allready one Fanart and you choose to download another one, it freezes for me.

[ringgh0st]

i also installed intripid PPA and have some issues:

• when skipping forward a movie xbmc freezes often completely. also the sound then loops forever (have intel hd alsa, lsa-utils restart doesnt work)
• after shutting down xbmc (quit app) the mouse is gone.

all the other stuff works really fine. thanx

[tslayer]

ringgh0st,

Did you try removing pulseaudio first? Try that and see if it solves the sound issue.

[seanysean]

I've just reinstalled my work laptop with xbmc(!), a fresh Intrepid install + the official xbmc repositories.

It doesn't start - the error I get when launching from the command line is:

"xbmc libmysqlclient.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Have you missed some dependencies from the build?

Sean

edit: I've just installed mysql-client and mysql-common, and the problem is fixed. Thanks for the new intrepid build

[ringgh0st]

@tslyer: no i didnt. heard of pulse audio for the first time can you tell how to remove?

@seanysean: same prob was here. solved it by apt-getting the latest libmysqlclient

[tslayer]

ringgh0st, search the forums.

[gyrene2083]

I ran the ppa for intrepid and this is what I got when I tried to install xbmc

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xbmc: Depends: xbmc-common (= 8.10b2svn16090-intrepid2) but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: xbmc-skin-pm3-hd (= 8.10b2svn16090-intrepid2) but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: xbmc-web-pm3 (= 8.10b2svn16090-intrepid2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Any ideas?

[seanysean]

Originally Posted by gyrene2083

I ran the ppa for intrepid and this is what I got when I tried to install xbmc

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xbmc: Depends: xbmc-common (= 8.10b2svn16090-intrepid2) but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: xbmc-skin-pm3-hd (= 8.10b2svn16090-intrepid2) but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: xbmc-web-pm3 (= 8.10b2svn16090-intrepid2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Any ideas?

I get the same when trying to install xbmc*. The solution is to use the following command-line instead:

sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-skin*

I'm having a complete nightmare with pulseaudio. An install upgraded from 8.04 to Intrepid worked fine. A new clean Intrepid install on the same box has a combination of speeded up video and hangs on trick play. I couldn't kill the pulseaudio process without root access, and disabling it from /etc/init.d/ scripts just made it worse.

Does anybody know exactly what the pulseaudio issues are with xbmc and are they being looked at?

Thanks,

Sean