Install Raspbmc
XBMC is a really big software project, and installing and configuring it can be tricky. Fortunately, you don’t have to do it yourself for the Pi; you can benefit from the glorious efforts of the Raspbmc[77] team. Raspbmc is a Linux distribution for the Pi that does nothing but run XBMC. You can install it using NOOBS (see Have a Look Around with NOOBS) or copy an image of this distribution to an SD card as usual. Then you can use the SD card to boot the Pi. Instead of starting a terminal or a desktop environment, the Raspbmc distribution starts XBMC automatically.
In contrast to other Linux distributions for the Pi, the Raspbmc team not only offers for download a complete image file for an SD card, they also decided to create ...
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