XBMC on Raspberry Pi with Raspbian

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XBMC - Raspbian

If you want to install XBMC on your Raspberry Pi using  Raspbian and got dependency problems, you can download it from this repo by adding the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list

# XBMC Repo
deb http://archive.mene.za.net/raspbian wheezy contrib

Then update and install XBMC:

root@raspberry:~# aptitude update
root@raspberry:~# aptitude install xbmc

After that, you can start it on boot and increase the priority level by editing file /etc/default/xbmc with these parameters:

# Set this to 1 to enable startup
ENABLED=1</pre>
 
# The user to run XBMC as
USER=pi</pre>
 
# Adjust niceness of XBMC (decrease for higher priority)
NICE=-10

Remember to disable the LXDE or XFCE start on boot (you can ue rasp-config). Enjoy it!

Reference: XBMC for Raspberry Pi

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