[jovian]

I cannot install new skins, addons, scripts or plugins on my version of XBMC. When I add a new Video source, videoPlugin is not one of the available options.

Apart from these problem XBMC runs very smooth, doesn't crash, doesn't hang and configured and built without any problem.

Is something wring with my installation or are there different (newer?) methods to install skins, scripts, plugins and addons?

* System
Fedora 12 (Linux lenovot61 2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux)

* Install method
svn co https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk/ XBMC

I later reconfigured with ./configure --enable-external-python
This did not make any difference.

* Version
SVN Revision 30250 (17 May 2010)

* Reproduce
copy any skin to ~/.XBMC/skin/
(I tried with Aeon 0.91 from http://www.mediafire.com/?zmimm4ljm5m)
copy any plugin or script to ANY subdirectory under ~/.XBMC/skins/
(eg. `XOT-Uzg.v3' in ~/xbmc/plugins or ~/xbmc/plugins/video or ~/xbmc/addons)

* Hardware
IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T61

* log file
http://pastesite.com/15965

[einhänder]

afaik plugins/scripts are not supposed to work on the latest svn due to the rewrite of the addons system (addon manager).

details:
- http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/04/27/state-of-the-addons/
- http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/03/01/impend...ge-addons/

switching to external python won't make any difference. in case you would use a version prior to the addons merge, it's recommended to use internal python support. xbmc uses python24 internally while most distributions offer python26. therefore most plugins/scripts would not work with external python enabled (at least my experience).
iirc team xbmc is about to implement python26, can't give you any details about that.

[jovian]

Thanks for your response. I `make uninstall'-ed and installed an older xbmc from an [external] Fedora repository. Now I can use addons.