If you have a Linux system and would like to install XBMC on it, here's where to find out how. Installing XBMC on a linux system is quite easy, first choose your flavour of linux from the list below.
Ubuntu
Execute the following lines at the command prompt:
- sudo apt-get install python-software-properties pkg-config
- sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install xbmc
Arch
As stable xbmc releases are already available through the community repository, please make sure you have it enabled in your /etc/pacman.conf. After that it's as simple as using pacman to install the most recent version of xbmc in the repository along with all of its dependencies:
- pacman -Sy xbmc
Foresight
xbmc is in official repositories and can be installed by running:
- sudo conary update xbmc
Gentoo
xbmc is in the official portage tree as media-tv/xbmc. Install with:
- sudo emerge --autounmask xbmc
Mageia
PVR-enabled XBMC is available in the official repositories. You can install it with the graphical package manager or with the following command:- urpmi xbmc
Mageia 2 ships with XBMC 11.0 (Eden); Mageia 1 ships with XBMC 10.1 (Dharma). Both have opdenkamp's PVR support added.
Mandriva
XBMC 10.1 (Dharma) with PVR support is available in contrib/updates of Mandriva 2010.1. You can install it with
- urpmi xbmc
Mandriva 2009.1 and 2010.0 have older versions of XBMC that can be installed by running:
- urpmi --searchmedia Backports xbmc
Of course, you can install from contrib/backports or from contrib/release using the GUI tool rpmdrake. Note that all these methods are most easily used if you have the full software sources enabled
