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  • 04/30/2014 at 13:46 #6483
    royenroy
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    Hello everyone! I recently got my Raspberry Pi to work with RetroPie, and I absolutely love it. Yet, when I was searching on Google to look for possibilities to use both RetroPie and Xbmc, I found video, which shows exactly what I’d love to achieve. Of course, I already started to search for *how* he did it, and I found this:
    cd ~/RetroPie/roms
    mkdir ~/RetroPie/roms/apps
    So far so good, this makes a new folder in my apps folder, that allows me to include the Xbmc file.
    nano ~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
    And edit:
    DESCNAME=Applications
    NAME=apps
    PATH=/home/RetroPie/roms/apps
    EXTENSION=.sh
    COMMAND=bash %ROM%
    And the tutorial told me that I needed to create a test.
    nano ~/RetroPie/roms/apps/test.sh
    And in that file type:
    #!/bin/bash
    nano
    Okay, I get that. Now I have a test application. What I want to know, is how to get an .sh file for Xbmc. Anyone who can help me?

    04/30/2014 at 14:11 #6485
    RazorX2014
    Participant

    create a file called xbmc.sh and add

    #!/bin/bash
    sudo xbmc

    then save it and goto its location on terminal and run sudo chmod +x xbmc.sh then put the sh file in the apps folder if you havnt already and that should be it

    04/30/2014 at 16:30 #6486
    royenroy
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    After the chmod command the xbmc file doesn’t change, and thus the ’emulator’ won’t show up in Emulationstation. Due to the direct response, I’m guessing that this didn’t install Xbmc, as that should’ve taken longer.

    04/30/2014 at 16:37 #6487
    RazorX2014
    Participant

    that wasnt to install xbmc it was to launch it and the chmod command makes the sh file executable.

    install xbmc first then try it try xbmc instead of sudo xbmc if it doesnt launch it.

    04/30/2014 at 17:00 #6489
    royenroy
    Participant

    [quote=6487]that wasnt to install xbmc it was to launch it and the chmod command makes the sh file executable.

    install xbmc first then try it try xbmc instead of sudo xbmc if it doesnt launch it.
    [/quote]
    What do you mean with ‘install xmbc first’. Excuse me, I’m a beginner in all this. When I try to Google it, I get a lot of hits with seperate OS’s and images, and I want to keep my current image.

    04/30/2014 at 17:04 #6490
    RazorX2014
    Participant

    try

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install python-software-properties pkg-config
    sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install xbmc

    04/30/2014 at 17:42 #6491
    royenroy
    Participant

    Thanks, it all works now. <3!

    04/30/2014 at 17:47 #6493
    RazorX2014
    Participant

    np glad to help, please change the topic to resolved

    06/26/2014 at 14:49 #9556
    Snake
    Guest

    can anyone help me with this? when i make the directory’s and test file then go back into emulation station an apps page doesn’t appear..

    08/30/2014 at 22:13 #48579
    woabash
    Participant

    So I get to the install xbmc part and get this

    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    xbmc : Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1) but it is not installable
    Depends: xbmc-bin (< 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1.1~) but it is not installable
    Recommends: python-qt3 but it is not going to be installed
    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

    any thoughts?

    09/01/2014 at 11:23 #50092
    jayp76
    Participant

    i get also an error message when starting sudo apt-get update:

    Fehl http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy/main Sources
    404 Not Found

    Fehl http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy/main armhf Packages
    404 Not Found

    W: Fehlschlag beim Holen von http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu/dists/wheezy/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found

    W: Fehlschlag beim Holen von http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu/dists/wheezy/main/binary-armhf/Packages 404 Not Found

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