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Made a wiki page on how to build and install XBMC on Debian and Ubuntu.

http://www.xbmc.org/wiki/?title=HOW-TO_c...ian/Ubuntu

Any feedback is welcome.

Enjoy.

Looks good, maybe add something about the -j# parameter when building on a #-core machine? And perhaps a caveat that you might need to run make install with sudo?

Stupid question. The ./configure process takes a bit of time. Is it always necessary to do this or can you just update from svn and run "make" once you've run ./configure initially (or is there some indication that a particular pull from svn will require re-running ./configure)?

you may want to add "sudo" in from of 'make install'.

crego; changes to configure and/or configure.in and/or any *.in file in general (Makefiles, some generated source files)

Why not put this information in the HOW-TO compile XBMC for Linux on Debian/Ubuntu article into new subsections of the existing HOW-TO compile XBMC for Linux from source code article instead?

Same goes for the HOW-TO compile XBMC for Linux on Fedora Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS and the HOW-TO compile XBMC for Linux on openSUSE Linux articles?

Is it not enough to have just one "HOW-TO compile XBMC for Linux from source code" article? and simply instead have different sections in that same article for each Linux distribution if needed?

Is it just me or is having a separate article for each distro overkill?

depends on who you ask i guess.

if you ask a power user any tutorial is overkill - you should be able to figure it out on your own based on README.linux and general 'puter/unix stuff. if this is the ground rules we follow we should have NO articles.

then again a lot of people run 'ubuntu', not linux. and the same for other distro's. making it dead simple on them can't hurt.