Hello,
I’ve only been on my Pi for a couple days and am trying to learn everything I can, so I apologize for this blatant newbery, but as an OS, does OSMC allow you to download programs like if you were on a standard RPi OS such as Raspbian?
My ultimate goal is to install my PI in my vehicle (replace my stereo) as a media player and file browser (to quickly play my Dashcam videos from SD card), but I hope to also be able to download apps that may be useful in a car.
I’m just getting started, but so much of my research has been devoted to just getting the Pi running and understanding Linux (somewhat), so I don’t really know what’s out there.
Are there say… Apps for navigation/maps I can download. Do I simply download them via the command line?
“as an OS” OSMC is based on Debian and you can install programms via command line (sudo apt-get install)
Thanks, I tried “sudo apt-get install pistore”
But it said it could not be found. Based on what I read at store.raspberrrypi.com, I must download “pistore” in order to download the apps/games there…?
My goal is really just to download anything so I can try it on the Pi. OSMC does not seem to have much available for a newb, just heavy HTPC users.
If I install a program using “sudo apt-get”, will it simply show up in “Programs” in OSMC?
I’m not sure I can answer your question, but I can add a couple of points of clarification.
- before you perform an ‘apt-get install …’ you should do ‘apt-get update’ (remembering to precede each with ‘sudo’.
- What you will get from this process is something you can run from the command line, not the GUI.
- What you probably want is Kodi apps, which can integrate with the Kodi and the OSMC on which it is running, and produce results on the GUI.
- If you’re talking running games, then you probably want to exit kodi before running them, so the GUI doesn’t get in the way.
HTH
Derek
Hi
I believe that Pi Store is only available in the Raspberry Pi’s official repositories and also requires an X11 desktop to be run properly.
Sam