Help with mce remote

[Cerasus]

(25th Aug, 2013 08:52 PM)Dbbd Wrote:  Specific case it is not - it covers all USB remotes.
The solution above failed to hold. After reboot it stopped working again.
What does work is as follows:
get rid of Lirc. Remove it from the default services.
install ir-keytables (apt-get install ir-keytables)
copy the appropriate keytable to /etc/rc_keytables
modify the keytable as you need - it creates keyboard events, so you can tailor your remote to the keys expected by xbmc.
add the command "ir-keytable -c -w /etc/rc_keytables/<your keytable>

And that's it. It is simple, it survives reboots. It doe NOT require changing the lirc keyboard.xml

AND, it is faster - looks like the reduced translation chain makes the pi respond to the remote keys faster. This however is my subjective, unmeasured feeling.

Dan

I've tried to use this method but get stuck. I just get the promt "Unable to locate package ir-keytables". I'm really not used to the CLI and lack any intuitive sense of how to proceed. Could you explain it like you would to a 5 yo?