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Updating

Your XBian install can by kept up to date by many ways, but all lead to the same core mechanism. As it standard on Debian based systems, APT system is used.

Depending on your skills you can:

- turn on auto updates
– this can be configured in xbian-config tool
– with default configuration, XBian will check for updates daily will install all stable packages from XBian repositories and all security updates issued by base system distribution - use xbian-config tool directly from XBMC and control update process with your remote
- use text based console xbian-config
- if you wish to have full control, you control APT directly with issuing commands to terminal session

Tips, Tricks and Troubleshooting

In some cases there may be errors due to upstream packages, if errors are encountered it is recommended to install all the xbian* packages first, as these may contain fixes which will allow the upgrade to proceed.

(Q) I am getting autofs errors trying to upgrade from Beta2 to RC1
(A) escape out to the terminal and reboot (you should be prompted to do so). Run the upgrade process again and you should complete without errors.

(Q) I am getting an error about upgrading python2.7
(A) Follow the instructions below (with sudo) found in THIS POST

sed -i '/_hashlib.so/d' /var/lib/dpkg/info/python2.7.list
sed -i '/_ssl.so/d' /var/lib/dpkg/info/python2.7.list

and run the upgrade again. If you still have issues you can run

sudo apt-get -f install