SlaXBMC 14.1 goes Gotham

After a long development cycle the XBMC team has released their latest and greatest stable creation XBMC 13.0, code-named Gotham.

As you would expect SlaXBMC couldn't stay away from this piece of beauty and therefore a marriage has begun in order to introduce it into all available SlaXBMC flavors x86, x86_64 and ARM (Raspberry Pi). The only requirement is SlaXBMC 14.1 and the HOWTO as follows:

Gotham Upgrade for SlaXBMC 14.1 (32bit)

• Make sure you're connected to the internet!
• Exit from XBMC to Desktop
• Right click on the Desktop and select 'xterm'
• In the xterm window that pop-up copy paste the following piece of code and press <enter> (it will download the upgrade files)

wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmc-14.1/obsolete/afpfs-ng-0.8.1-i486-2xsb.txz ; wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmc-14.1/obsolete/libshairport-1.2.0.20310-i486-2xsb.txz ; wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmc-14.1/obsolete/xbmc-13.0-i486-1xsb.txz

• In the same xterm window copy paste the following command followed by <enter> (it will upgrade the required packages)

upgradepkg *.txz

• Execute the following command to cleanup the recently downloaded files

rm *.txz

• Close the xterm window and start XBMC Gotham using the right click menu 'Start XBMC'

Gotham Upgrade for SlaXBMC64 14.1 (64bit)

• Make sure you're connected to the internet!
• Exit from XBMC to Desktop
• Right click on the Desktop and select 'xterm'
• In the xterm window that pop-up copy paste the following piece of code and press <enter> (it will download the upgrade files)

wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmc64-14.1/obsolete/afpfs-ng-0.8.1-x86_64-2xsb.txz ; wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmc64-14.1/obsolete/libshairport-1.2.0.20310-x86_64-2xsb.txz ; wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmc64-14.1/obsolete/xbmc-13.0-x86_64-1xsb.txz

• In the same xterm window copy paste the following command followed by <enter> (it will upgrade the required packages)

upgradepkg *.txz

• Execute the following command to cleanup the recently downloaded files

rm *.txz

• Close the xterm window and start XBMC Gotham using the right click menu 'Start XBMC'

Gotham Upgrade for SlaXBMCRPi 14.1 (ARM - Raspberry Pi)

• Make sure you're connected to the internet!
• Exit from XBMC to Desktop
• Right click on the Desktop and select 'xterm'
• In the xterm window that pop-up copy paste the following command followed by <enter> (it will remove some obsolete files and download/install its' replacement)

removepkg gst-ffmpeg ; wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmcrpi-14.1/obsolete/gst-libav-1.2.0-arm-1xsb.txz ; installpkg gst-libav-1.2.0-arm-1xsb.txz ; rm gst-libav-1.2.0-arm-1xsb.txz

• In the same xterm window copy paste the following piece of code and press <enter> (it will download the rest of the upgrade files)

wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmcrpi-14.1/obsolete/afpfs-ng-0.8.1-arm-2xsb.txz ; wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmcrpi-14.1/obsolete/ffmpeg-1.2-arm-1xsb.txz ; wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmcrpi-14.1/obsolete/libshairport-1.2.0.20310-arm-2xsb.txz ; wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmcrpi-14.1/obsolete/midori-0.5.8-arm-1xsb.txz ; wget http://slackware.org.uk/slaxbmc/14.1/slaxbmcrpi-14.1/obsolete/xbmc-13.0-arm-1xsb.txz

• In the same xterm window copy paste the following command followed by <enter> (it will upgrade the required packages)

upgradepkg *.txz

• Execute the following command to cleanup the recently downloaded files

rm *.txz

• Close the xterm window and start XBMC Gotham using the right click menu 'Start XBMC'

Enjoy,

Analekto