XBMC is a free and open source award winning media player available for Linux, OSX and Windows. It provides the one stop solution for all your digital media entertainment. Currently it supports all the popular video and audio formats. It was designed to network playback, so you can stream your multimedia anywhere from your place or directly from your internet. XBMC able to play CD/DVD from your digital media or image files and almost all archieve files, even the files inside the ZIP and RAR archieves. It provides a wonderful interface to the user. It scans your digital media and creates a library which contains name, descriptions.

XBMC allows you to change skins and add plugins for additional features. Following are the popular skins

This guide explains you how to install XBMC in your linux operating system For Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc For older version of ubuntu sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xbmc For Fedora 15, 16, 17 XBMC is available in RPMFusion repository. Add this RPMFusion repository to your system su -c ‘yum localinstall –nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm’ sudo yum install xbmc For RHEL 6 and CentOS 6 Add this RPMFusion repository su -c ‘yum localinstall –nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-6-1.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/el/updates/6/i386/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-6-1.noarch.rpm’ sudo yum install xbmc For openSUSE XBMC is available in packman repository. To add it in your repository go to YaST > Repositories > Repositories Manager > Add > Community Repositories sudo zypper in XBMC If you find any difficulties in installation of XBMC in linux, please let me know thorough comments. Reference : This guide is prepared based on the documents avail in XBMC Share the post “XBMC – Free Media Player for Linux, OSX and Windows” Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Digg StumbleUpon E-mail Related articles How to mount iso image in linux How to change the Apache HTTP port number Apache HTTP Server installation from source code in linux How to install and configure PHPMyAdmin from source code in CentOS / RHEL / Fedora linux How to check the Video and Audio File properties – Media Information How to change the time zone, time and date using commands in linux Glipper , Parcellite – Best clipboard utilities for linux How to change hostname in linux How to install OpenVPN on various linux distro How to install VLC on Fedora Linux Subscribe Our Free Newsletter Delivered by FeedBurner. We Respect Your Privacy