As a little New Year’s present, I have updated a script that has been knocking around to allow you to install XBMC on a minimal version of Ubuntu Maverick.
If you simply install Ubuntu from the mini.iso containing the basic Ubuntu Maverick install, then on reboot, download my script using:
wget www.prupert.co.uk/scripts/xbmcmaverickrevo.sh
make it executable, using:
chmod a+x xbmcmaverickrevo.sh
then finally run it using:
sudo ./xbmcmaverickrevo.sh
I find it is best to run it again, once the script reboots the machine, as this fixes a few issues.
It is still a work in progress, as you can’t yet shutdown / restart etc via XBMC since it seems the method to add permissions in Ubuntu 10.10 have changed and they conflict with the setup here, so I am still looking into that. To shutdown / reboot at the moment, I log in via SSH and issue:
sudo shutdown -hP now
Also, it is designed to work just with the Acer Aspire Revo 3610, but there is no reason why it wont work with any other device (apart from maybe the audio configurations).
Enjoy.
