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Install or Upgrade to all new XBMC 9.04 in Ubuntu Jaunty

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XBMC 9.04, codenamed Babylon is released. If you are not familiar with xbmc media center yet, take a sneak peak into the features xbmc has to offer. XBMC is an award winning Open Source Multimedia application, which is also really easy to use. Also take a look on how to install XBMC in Ubuntu Intrepid.

Update: XBMC 9.04.1 is released. Install it straight away.

XBMC Babylon has many new features and bug fixes. Some of them include,

  • Support for Power PC Architecture( MacOSX for example).
  • VDPAU hardware accelerated video decoding under Linux on NVIDIA graphics.
  • New and improved Karoke Features.
  • More Media Info Scrapers.
  • Improved FanArt support.
  • Enhancements to the XBMC Skinning Framework and so on.

The saftest and easiest way to Install or upgrade this new release of XBMC is by adding the XBMC PPA for Jaunty Jackalope. Here is how it can be done.

Add GPG Key

  • Copy-paste the following in Terminal
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 9317790E

Add PPA Repo For Ubuntu Jaunty

  • Goto System->Administration->Software Sources and select the Third party Software tab. Click  ADD. And add the following repo for Jaunty.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/jaunty-ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/jaunty-ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Installing XBMC 9.04 in Ubuntu

  • Goto Terminal and do
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc

OR

  • You could goto synaptic package manager and search for the pakage xbmc and then install it from there itself(so that you need not have to use command line at all)
  • Done!

UPDATE: After doing all these, and if you still don't have XBMC in your synaptic, please do sudo update-apt-xapian-index in Terminal. And try installing afterwards. 

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XBMC Install Issue
Submitted by John Carragher (not verified) on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 10:09.

Thanks for the advice as to how to make XBMC available. I figured it might be a mirror issue and it seems the fix forced a mirror update.

Hopefully it fixes the issue for others as well.

Ubuntu 9.04 - XBMC not found after following instructions
Submitted by John Carragher (not verified) on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 07:10.

I was running XBMC under 8.10. The install process differs between the quick advice and the advice on this page

http://ubuntumanual.org/posts/176/install-or-upgrade-to-all-new-xbmc-9-0...

I've installed the key from the shortcut page as well as this page and don't get any errors.

XBMC does not come up in the Synaptic Package Manager (2 fresh installs on different hardware as well as my main machine).

Installing XBMC 9.04 in Ubuntu
Submitted by webmaster on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 17:22.

Hello John,

                   After adding the new repo and GPG key, do the following in terminal,

sudo update-apt-xapian-index

Afterwards Reload Synaptic and search for XBMC once again. It should work. Please let me know if it doesn't. Thank you :-)

No idea, sorry... This is
Submitted by Dan Dar3 (not verified) on Sat, 07/04/2009 - 21:22.

No idea, sorry... This is the second time I had to use, hope it helps someone else if they have the same problem...

Re: Thanks for the update.
Submitted by Dan Dar3 (not verified) on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 13:33.

I don't know to be honest, googling around I found other people saying it's needed to make Synaptic show entries from third-party repositories and it did it for me...

Thanks for the post. I had
Submitted by Dan Dar3 (not verified) on Wed, 05/20/2009 - 23:12.

Thanks for the post. I had to do "sudo update-apt-xapian-index" to make it show up in Synaptic Package Manager, as per discussion thread below. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1143553

Thank you for the update
Submitted by webmaster on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 11:53.

I had it worked without doing sudo update-apt-xapian-index. Do you know what this command actually does, never seen it before :-?

Thanks anyways :-)