The installation of xbmc is more of less straight forward. I entered the following into my terminal:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties pkg-config
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc 

The installation of the xmbc package supplied me with 2 more programs:

1. xbmc
2. xbmc-standalone

For the time being, I will use "xbmc" to be launched automatically by xubuntu. I set that in the control panel, to go to "Session and Startup". There I chose the tab "Application Autostart" and I clicked "Add" and filled up the Name and Command out with "xbmc".
I will later find out and blog about how to start directly into xbmc, bypassing the xubuntu desktop environment (xfce).
The next two packages that I will add are:

1. ssh: ssh, or better known as openssh, is well know as remote terminal administration of Linux and BSD system and is from my opinion a must for every Linux system that is being remotely administered. Especially when you are watching a movie and then you remember that you have check or change some configuration of the system.
2. samba: the samba package will give you the possibility to share files for various clients, especially Microsoft Windows Clients. They will appear as shared folders over the networks. I will configure in my set up one user and one shared folder in which that authenticated has the write access. Other unauthenticated user (guest users) will only have read access and will not need any authentication for that.

The ssh package needs only to be installed. As for the samba server, I will assume that you will know how to use vi and the various Linux commands that I will be mentioning / using the terminal.

1. In /etc/samba/smb.conf I searched for the following lines below and uncomment them, if I didn't find them, I added those lines listed below:
   
   • security = user
   • usershare allow guests = yes
   • [homes]
     create mask = 0700
     directory mask = 0700
     valid users = %S
2. In the installation of xubuntu I have created the default user "mediatomb". That was something which was in my previous blog so obvious in the installation process that I didn't mention. The following command will assume refer to that user:  

smbpasswd -a mediatomb

The above command will prompt you for the password for the password backend.

A reboot of the system made my changes take effect.
During the installation and configuration process, I ran into some unexpected but minor, what I call some dents or bugs.

I will list them up in my next blog and if I run into any solutions, I will mention their solutions of course.