Recently I was trying to install the incredible XBMC on a new Ubuntu Natty 11.04 installation, but found some problems after following the instructions on the XBMC Wiki. This is the extra step I had to follow to get everything working the way I would have expected.
he basic problem is after adding the ppa:team-xbmc repository you still get error messages along the lines of:
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/p...source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/p...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
This is because there are not natty builds in the repository, the latest is maverick (see here for complete list). However, there is still a way to install XBMC using the Maverick builds
The first thing we need too do is add the XBMC repository into our Ubuntu installation. As described on the XBMC Wiki this is done running this command in a shell terminal.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc
This add a new file into the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory, the problem is that file will tell apt-get to look for Natty packages and we need to make it look for Maverick ones instead.
Using your favourite text editor you need to update this new repository file:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/team-xbmc-ppa-natty.list
The file looks somthing like this:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu natty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu natty main
Now just replace "natty" with "maverick":
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
The rest is just as easy as installing any other software:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc
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