Comments on: How to install XBMC 12.0 Frodo (beta 1) on Apple TV

By: Nikolaj

Nikolaj — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:43:00 +0000

In reply to Nicky Nala. Have your found a solution?

By: dell

dell — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:36:00 +0000

Don’t get it how is there no space left?

Apple-TV:~ root# apt-get install wget

Reading package lists… Error!

E: Write error – write (28: No space left on device)

E: Can’t mmap an empty file

E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

By: Shawn Miller

Shawn Miller — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:37:00 +0000

cant get it to work

By: madone

madone — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:25:00 +0000

I can’t install XBMC 12.0 on my aTV2 (OS 5.1.1)

When I enter this line:
AppleTV:~ root# apt-get update

I get this error message:
E: Type ‘.deb’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list

What to do?

TKS

By: satch

satch — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:21:00 +0000

No luck overhere with the FRODO update. did all the commands above (I saw by update: you have allready the latest version. reboot the ATV2 but XBMC still shows the EDEN version (I’m on iOS 5.0.2)..did I do something wrong?? (and YES my syntax was right)

By: ghostshadow

ghostshadow — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 06:18:00 +0000

So far I have had little issue with the install. XBMC 12 was a bit slow at first, but it was because my addons were updating. If others are experiencing slowness, you might give it a few minutes so the aTV can finish processing first.

My artwork for movies were gone too, but as soon as I went to the video library, it prompted me to update the photo cache. If yours doesn’t do this, just press and hold the center button and choose refresh, or choose artwork. This will re-download the cover art.

You can also update the library, this will force XBMC to re-check the artwork and download missing images. Just press and hold on the middle button of the remote and the dialogue will come up and you can select “update library” from the menu if you’re in the video category of xbmc.

Hope that helps!

By: loo gaza

loo gaza — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:51:00 +0000

In reply to SFitch. this can happen if you or someone else has previously changed the password. A lot of advanced users will change their password -cos alpine is the default and people could hack it

By: SFitch

SFitch — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:51:00 +0000

hi thanks for this. i got through to putty terminal server but when prompted for the password i typed in alpine and got access denied. could you let me know what i do now? thanks.

By: Chris Logan

Chris Logan — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:39:00 +0000

Updated from Eden to Frodo on Thanksgiving morning (don’t even bring up how unhappy my wife was that I was doing this). Anyways, Frodo was very, very slow and lost most of my movie poster – or at least they wouldn’t display. After no more than 30 minutes, I had enough and decided to go back to Eden. Fortunately, this was quite easy. I just uninstalled Frodo using the instructions on the XBMC wiki and then reinstalled latest (Eden) using the same. Guess I’ll wait for Frodo release.

By: Dick

Dick — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:52:00 +0000

Careful of the syntax on your command lines … the quote symbols are incorrect and cause a .deb error … also I am not sure why but after updating to Frodo my ATV2 crashes when I try to launch it and reboots the ATV ?