Official XBian 1.0 Beta 1.1 thread

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@Gnom

just few facts to tell you to decide how to proceed because:
1) update packages prior Beta2 have been specifically designed to upgrade version in one step only. that means in your case update to Alpha5 would be needed, then to Beta1X.
2) I don't know i there is an easy way to get update package from Alpha4 to Alpha5
3) Beta2 would update your system as this one step requirement is more there, but the most work in the package was done working with Alpha5 base install. so even if Beta2 would not fail because of old system - this way wasn't tested at all and nobody can say what it does to your system (and I have never ever seen Alpha4 so I can't even speculate)
4) most of the errors you get is because the sources has been changed since so your sources.list is completely wrong now.
5) you don't need to go into details but just out of curiosity, why is reinstall not an option? If it is only because of XBMC settings / Libraries etc, this can be EASILY migrated to clean install. if are settings / programs are in question, this can be discussed if you are willing to.

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@Gnom

I was just checking actual repo and indeed there is still xbian-update to Alpha5 available. Actual correct source.list look this post, point 9
http://forum.xbian.org/thread-1391-post-16498.html#pid16498 .

then pure theoretically the way for you would be
1) apt-get install xbian-update=1.0-0.5 (this step assumes that all packages required for Alpha5 are still there in their respective version - but if not, it won't install so nothing bad happens - always you can try first with "apt-get install -s xbian-update=1.0-0.5" first to "simulate" the process
2) apt-get install xbian-update=1.0-1.1 after

one notice though, Beta1.1 has bug not starting dbus + avahi-daemon under some conditions what will make your ZeroConf not working, but this can easily by patched manually according to this: https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian/issues/464
it is only three posts to read.