problems installing xbmc on new installation

[Wurgl]

Hello!

I got my Raspberry last xmas and was happy with it. I used it to watch YouTube with XBMC on my TV, so nothing really sophisticated

A few days ago the memory card crashed. Could be read without problems, but writing failed. Okay, bought a new one. No problem.

Today I installed this new memory card.

Downloaded this image
http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/images ... spbian.zip
Installed it ...
Then I booted the Pi with the image and did a
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
and raspi-config

So far no problem.
Now I tried to install xmbc and got the following:

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# apt-get install xbmc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 xbmc : Depends: xbmc-bin (>= 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1) but it is not installable
        Depends: xbmc-bin (< 2:11.0~git20120510.82388d5-1.1~) but it is not installable
        Recommends: python-qt3 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Any ideas?

[Cloudcentric]

raspi-config configuration screen should pop up on first boot..


After login at command prompt undertake:

sudo su
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
sync
reboot

[Wurgl]

Thats what I did, but I did login via ssh -- which should not be any difference.

Here the first lines of the bash history.

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root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# history
    1  raspi-config
    2  apt-get update
    3  apt-get upgrade
    4  apt-get install xbmc

[Cloudcentric]

did not see a mention in your post of apt-get dist-upgrade

[Wurgl]

I tried dist-upgrade later ...

18 apt-get dist-upgrade

During the xmas-holiday I installed this one (onto that memory card which crashed in the meanwhile) 2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.zip Worked with that fine. But as I remember almost all packages got updated in the meanwhile and I tried to avoid those updates.

Shall I use this image to start? I have a second memory card, so not a real problem.

[Cloudcentric]

I have no issues with the latest image and installing subsequent updates.

The software I have used previously all freshly installed AOK

2 thing I have noticed over the last 8 months is the power supplies can be very flakey and SD Cards have a habit of dying if undertaking to many read / writes / reformats.....

[Wurgl]

It seems that xbmc-bin has vanished.

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root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# apt-cache show xbmc-bin
N: Can't select versions from package 'xbmc-bin' as it is purely virtual
N: No packages found

On the other hand, „apt-cache show xbmc“ shows a lot of lines, as expected.

[Wurgl]

Finally solved, at least for me.

Since the files for xbmc-bin seem to be missing in the repository, I used the brute force method. Copied the image on the SD-card and then merged in the changed files from the image of the broken SD-card where everything was installed.

Everything seems to work.