Mshake Wrote:Might be a silly question but please advice hopefully,
I followed the link to the xbmc ppas and is it true that for linux, there is no one complete package such as the windows one where u can install and uninstall and could go back to a previous version easily?
Yes, it's true that my way of packaging causes the creation of multiple packages. This is to let the possibility to customize your installation of xbmc.
Mshake Wrote:It seems the previous few posters are having issues trying to reinstall a previous build or something and the process is not as clear cut as the windows version??
Removing is easy as removing the lower package (xbmc-common) . This causes the removal of everything.
Mshake Wrote:There are multiple *.deb files all over the place for the same build number. Do we have to download all of them and install each of them manually just to be up and running??
If you do that, it means that either you know what you are doing. Currently, trying to install earlier versions from the PPA is very difficult. In fact I am even surprised that Launchpad still keeps the older packages for a so long time.
This is why I said in the first post that the SVN ppa where for bleeding edge users, which means highly unstable.
More generally, while in windows you will have one file for installing a software, in Linux you will have multiple ones. This is because the libraries are reused on Linux, while they are duplicated in windows. If you have 2 software on windows requiring python, python will be installed twice on different places. On Linux, you will have 3 packages: one for python and one for each software.
In general I find it easier to install a software in Linux than in windows. You don't need to go in a website to search for you softare, you search on synaptic, and the software will be downloaded. You don't need to open a browser, to download the file yourself ...