I don't know my way around Linux all that well so when I do something wrong it tends to be catastrophic, in the sense that I don't know how to recover other than by reinstalling the operating system and all the software. So as you can probably guess, once I have a system working I'm very reluctant to mess with it.
Right now I am running XBMC Eden on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This is running on an Acer Aspire Revo R3610 which has an optical audio output. I only mention that because when I first stared using this system I had a lot of problems getting multichannel sound to work properly, though that hasn't been as much of an issue with more recent versions.
The version of Eden I am currently using is from the repositories at http://ppa.launchpad.net/nathan-renniewa...ble/ubuntu and that repository is still enabled. I'm assuming I would have to disable that and change to some other source, correct?
The only reason I want to update to Frodo is because I just got a HDHomeRun and I would like the PVR support. But I don't want to break my system, nor lose all my data. I also want to have it upgrade automatically to any future release candidates and then to the final version of Frodo, but I don't want to be on a "development channel" where it would then start updating to betas of the next version. In other words, once I have the release version of Frodo I want to stop there, except for updates to Frodo itself.
So keeping that in mind, is it possible to do an in-place upgrade of XBMC to the current release candidate without any issues or should I just wait for the final release version? I'd really like to get on Frodo so I can schedule recordings in my HDHomeRun, and I already have Mythbuntu running on another system as a backend (I would never try to run it on the Revo, it still struggles occasionally while playing 1080p video). So my issue is accessing that from XBMC, and I did try the Mythbox add-on but was not able to get that to work correctly. I apologize if this has been asked before; I used the search but didn't find anything, but if you have a link to another post or thread that deals with this topic please post it in a reply and I'll go there.
Right now I am running XBMC Eden on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This is running on an Acer Aspire Revo R3610 which has an optical audio output. I only mention that because when I first stared using this system I had a lot of problems getting multichannel sound to work properly, though that hasn't been as much of an issue with more recent versions.
The version of Eden I am currently using is from the repositories at http://ppa.launchpad.net/nathan-renniewa...ble/ubuntu and that repository is still enabled. I'm assuming I would have to disable that and change to some other source, correct?
The only reason I want to update to Frodo is because I just got a HDHomeRun and I would like the PVR support. But I don't want to break my system, nor lose all my data. I also want to have it upgrade automatically to any future release candidates and then to the final version of Frodo, but I don't want to be on a "development channel" where it would then start updating to betas of the next version. In other words, once I have the release version of Frodo I want to stop there, except for updates to Frodo itself.
So keeping that in mind, is it possible to do an in-place upgrade of XBMC to the current release candidate without any issues or should I just wait for the final release version? I'd really like to get on Frodo so I can schedule recordings in my HDHomeRun, and I already have Mythbuntu running on another system as a backend (I would never try to run it on the Revo, it still struggles occasionally while playing 1080p video). So my issue is accessing that from XBMC, and I did try the Mythbox add-on but was not able to get that to work correctly. I apologize if this has been asked before; I used the search but didn't find anything, but if you have a link to another post or thread that deals with this topic please post it in a reply and I'll go there.