Do you love XBMC? Do you need and want it on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic? But you can’t install it because of a missing package that won’t install? Look no further, here I have your solution. Although XBMC 9.11 Camelot has resolved many user issues, fixed bugs, revamped its style, and created entirely new feature sets… it just can’t work if your system doesn’t support it.

The problem with Ubuntu could be that it doesn’t have all the required libraries in place. This is easy to prove. All you have to do is try to install “liblzo1”. If you are using a Debian-based system, such as Ubuntu/Kubuntu, you can install it via command such as the following command:

sudo apt-get install liblzo1

If you don’t want to use the command line, you can install the library via your favorite GUI application, such as KpackageIt (on Kubuntu) or Synaptic.

If you haven’t tried to install XBMC before or you have an older version, just run this command (via command line) to add the official unofficial XBMC PPAs:

sudo add-apt-ppa repository:team-xbmc/ppa sudo apt-get install xbmc-standalone xbmc liblzo1

If you are having trouble installing XBMC due to the missing “liblzo1” package, you can download it from the following places. For x64-bit computers use the first link, a normal 32-bit system use the second:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/amd64/liblzo1/download

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/liblzo1/download

Install that package first:

sudo dpkg -i liblzo1_1.08-3_amd64.deb Prayed sudo dpkg -i liblzo1_1.08-3_i386.deb

If you’re not comfortable with the command line, you can just click the file to install it via the built-in GUI package installers (these usually come standard with most current Linux distributions).

then do it:

sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone

This will now finally install XBMC on Kubuntu Karmic 9.10 without any issues. Enjoy the goodness of XBMC!