Previously I posted about how to get XBMC installed in Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 using the Jaunty repositories and a small work around (here). Today I noticed a update to XBMC in the Jaunty repositories for XBMC 9.11 Alpha (xbmc_9.11~alpha1-jaunty1_amd64.deb to be exact). So I thought, hey … on XBMC’s blog they said a new release won’t be out for Karmic until 9.11 comes, well … 9.11 alpha is out so I thought: what the heck. Might as well try.
Update 2: XBMC 9.11 Camelot FINAL is out now. Download information and news is here.
Update: New XBMC PPA install instructions here.
Edit: Update: XBMC Beta 2 is now out in the Karmic PPA’s. You can read about it here.
So I changed the repository to:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu/ karmic main
The only change was “jaunty” to “karmic”. The updated my repo list:
sudo apt-get update
And for kicks did a dist-upgrade to see if anything changed. To my pleasant surprise it did!
$ sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Calculating upgrade… Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
xbmc xbmc-common xbmc-scripts-example xbmc-skin-pm3 xbmc-skin-pm3-hd xbmc-standalone xbmc-web-pm3
7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 46.3MB of archives.
After this operation, 53.2kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
The updated packages are as follows:
http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main xbmc-scripts-example 9.11~alpha1-karmic1 [410kB]
http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main xbmc 9.11~alpha1-karmic1 [15.3kB]
http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main xbmc-standalone 9.11~alpha1-karmic1 [2,734B]
http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main xbmc-skin-pm3-hd 9.11~alpha1-karmic1 [9,960kB]
http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main xbmc-web-pm3 9.11~alpha1-karmic1 [1,524kB]
http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main xbmc-skin-pm3 9.11~alpha1-karmic1 [14.0MB]
http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic/main xbmc-common 9.11~alpha1-karmic1 [20.3MB]
So there you have it, the XMBC Alpha release for Karmic. Not a final stable version yet, it still have a few issues with it:
- Windows: DirectX runtime and Visual C++ 2008 runtime(x86/x64) are required. The installer will be updated to check for these.
- Windows: ‘Windowed’ shortcut opens in full screen
- Windows: Non-functional brightness/contrast
- Windows: Discs inserted before XBMC is launched may not appear correctly
- Windows: Some videos may not play back as smoothly as on other platforms
- Linux: VDPAU de-interlacing is known to be broken
A few small issues and “Many of these problems have already been fixed since the alpha1 tag and should be resolved in the next testing release” states the blog.
Hope to see a nice new XBMC soon! Can barely wait; now if we could only get vdpau working 100% correctly and get more videos which required it, I’d be happy 
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I get this error after adding the deb source.
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net karmic Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 6D975C4791E7EE5E
I know in the past I’ve found some way to use gpg to add the key. Like
gpg –keyserver subkeys.pgp.net –recv SOME_ID_HERE
gpg –export –armor SOME_ID_HERE | sudo apt-key add -
But I’m not sure where to find that id. It still installs fine but with warnings.
Thanks
Thanks for the info, I have some updated information about the PPA here.
Simplified: remove the old XBMC source from your source list, then do:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
from the command line. It will handle all the rest.