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XBian Repositories
Your XBian repos should usually be managed properly with the xbian-config update tool, but you may occasionally need to check, verify or change them manually in /etc/apt/sources.list, particularly if moving to staging or devel.
Stable is the currently supported stable build of XBian, although at this writing it is still considered a release candidate. To run stable (which you are running by default on first install) your sources.list file should look like below.
xbian@xbian ~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi deb http://xbian.brantje.com stable main #deb-src http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi
The last line is not necessary (as it is commented anyway) but is there by default. Current correct repos for running staging:
Staging is the build which contains near-stable packages which are close to being moved into stable. To switch to using staging, your sources.list file should look like below (note you should run sudo apt-get clean and sudo apt-get update after changing your sources list)
xbian@xbian ~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi deb http://xbian.brantje.com stable main #deb-src http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi deb http://xbian.brantje.com staging main
Devel is the build used for testing and debugging new packages, you should have no expectation of stability if using this build (however it often may work just fine). You should only use this build if you plan to assist the developers with debugging for future enhancements (or are just very brave). Note you must have the staging repo added as well if you want to run devel). To switch to using devel your sources.list file should look like below.
xbian@xbian ~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi deb http://xbian.brantje.com stable main #deb-src http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy main contrib non-free rpi deb http://xbian.brantje.com staging main deb http://xbian.brantje.com devel main