RPi XBMC

=Comparison=

=Installing XBMC on the raspberrypi=

Dedicated image

 * raspbmc
 * openelec
 * xbian
 * Other distributions

Main apt repository

 * Not available for Debian wheezy yet

3rd party apt source
http://michael.gorven.za.net/raspberrypi/xbmc

sudo echo "deb http://archive.mene.za.net/raspbian wheezy contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mene.list sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 5243CDED sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc

nIerSify
sudo su apt-get update apt-get -y upgrade apt-get install libplist1 libmicrohttpd10 libtinyxml2.6.2 libyajl2 libssh-4 libmysqlclient18 liblzo2-2 libfribidi0 libcurl3-gnutls liblockdev1 libpcrecpp0 cd /opt/ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/selfprogramming/XBMC.deb/xbmc_20121004-1_armhf.deb?r=&ts=1350246473&use_mirror=voxel -O xbmc_selfprogramming.deb wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/selfprogramming/libs/taglib_20121005-1_armhf.deb?r=http%3A%2F%2Fselfprogramming.bplaced.net%2Findex.php%2F2012%2F10%2F05%2Fnew-xbmcdeb-mainline-tree-for-raspberry-pi%2Fcomments%2F&ts=1350248927&use_mirror=iweb -O taglib_20121005-1_armhf.deb wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/selfprogramming/libs/libshairport_1-1202030-1_armhf.deb?r=http%3A%2F%2Fselfprogramming.bplaced.net%2Findex.php%2F2012%2F10%2F05%2Fnew-xbmcdeb-mainline-tree-for-raspberry-pi%2Fcomments%2F&ts=1350248928&use_mirror=iweb -O libshairport_1-1202030-1_armhf.deb dpkg -i taglib_20121005-1_armhf.deb dpkg -i libshairport_1-1202030-1_armhf.deb cd /usr/local/lib/ ln -s libtag.so.1.12.0 libtag.so.1 ln -s libtag.so.1 libtag.so cd /usr/lib/ ln -s /usr/local/lib/libtag.so.1.12.0 libtag.so.1 ln -s /usr/local/lib/libcec.so.1 ./libcec.so.1 cd /opt dpkg -i xbmc_selfprogramming.deb mv /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libtag.so.1.7.2 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libtag.so.1.7.2.old mv /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libtag.so.1 /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libtag.so.1.old cp /boot/arm128_start.elf /boot/start.elf shutdown -r now clear;/usr/lib/xbmc/xbmc.bin

Building on the raspberrypi
(takes a long time)
 * RaspbianXBMC

Building on a x86
(more complicated then building on the raspberrypi)

Windows
After installing OpenVPN follow this guide to create (remember it's name and make sure there's no spaces in it) a network TAP interface http://linuxclues.blogspot.com/2007/06/installing-qemu-on-windows-vista.html On Windows, create folder structure like so: D:\Qemu (holding the Qemu-1.2.0-rc0-windows.zip contents) D:\Qemu\Raspbian (holding the 'kernel-qemu' file and the Raspbian image) First you need to use qemu-img to resize the img file: Usage is: qemu-img resize filename size It helps to temporarily move the wheezy image into D:\Qemu 3.7G seems to be the max you can resize to. Open comandline and navigate to D:\Qemu Example: qemu-img resize 2012-09-18-wheezy-raspbian.img 3.7G Then create a .bat file under D:\Qemu, containing the following launch string: qemu-system-armw.exe -M versatilepb -cpu arm1136 -m 1024 -kernel raspbian\kernel-qemu -hda raspbian\2012-09-18-wheezy-raspbian.img -net nic -net tap,ifname=TAP0 -append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1" -serial stdio Note: Replace TAP0 with whatever your Tap interface is named. I would suggest renaming it to something without spaces. ie. Tap0. Resize the Raspbian rootfs. Fix raspi-config resize issue with Qemu: cp /usr/bin/raspi-config ~ sed -i 's/mmcblk0p2/sda2/' ~/raspi-config sed -i 's/mmcblk0/sda/' ~/raspi-config sudo ~/raspi-config
 * Get 'Putty' (Windows Installer) from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
 * Get latest 'Qemu-1.2.0-rc0-windows.zip' from http://lassauge.free.fr/qemu/
 * Get 'kernel-qemu' from http://xecdesign.com/downloads/linux-qemu/kernel-qemu (Interesting read: http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/)
 * Get most recent Raspbian image ('2012-09-18 Wheezy' at time of writing) from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads (The Foundation's version of Raspbian)
 * Install OpenVPN to get a working Network TAP driver from http://openvpn.net/index.php/download/community-downloads.html (get the Windows installer)

Linux

 * TODO

Windows

 * TODO

Linux

 * TODO

=References=
 * http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianXBMC
 * http://debian.raspbian.com/qemu/README.txt
 * http://linuxclues.blogspot.com/2007/06/installing-qemu-on-windows-vista.html
 * http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/
 * http://www.raspbmc.com/wiki/technical/building-xbmc/
 * http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_compile_XBMC_for_Linux_from_source_code
 * http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO_compile_XBMC_for_Linux_on_Debian/Ubuntu