XBMC Downgrading Gotham to Frodo in Linux

Current XBMC Gotham 13.1 might be good for Windows machines and other platforms, but for Linux there's too much trouble with popular third party addons. If you think that any unstable (14.0, a "nightly") version could be of any help in this respect, think again. Au contraire, mes amis: incompatibilities with old/older addons will happen even more often.

As usual, there are hundreds ways to skin a cat, but some of them were proven too cumbersome. XBMC "official" repos and their archives are way too unyielding to get a well tested and stablest Frodo (12.0, 12.2, or 12.3) instead. A simpler way to downgrade to Frodo is offered here. In essense, it's the following procedure (I just added some shortcuts for my Linux Mint 17 installation in red):

After some hours of struggle trying to downgrade gotham to frodo
due to some addons problems (boblight preferences not working)
I found this solution.

On a terminal:

1.Go to this directory and delete any entry that contains xbmc on it

Code:

cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Code:

sudo rm delete-any-xbmc-repo

In Linux Mint, neither command above is needed in Linux Mint: deleting "official" XBMC repos is handled by standard Mint Software Sources utility just fine.

2.Then add this repo

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-old-stable

Here's (above) where to start for me, then 

3. Remove the current xbmc

Code:

sudo apt-get remove xbmc xbmc-bin

Mint standard Software Manager cleanly removes existing Gotham with one click, but it's your choice.

4.

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Code:

sudo apt-get upgrade

I omitted the upgrade command above: I never believed in upgrading the whole system when the task at hand is downgrading an app (XBMC). Ace Stream installation is a good example for this conservative approach. So, no sudo apt-get upgrade for me before XBMC Frodo installation.

5. Install xbmc

Code:

sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-bin

There you have again the good "old" xbmc Frodo 12.3.

Based on this post:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1341856

Update: Replaced

ppa:xbmcrus/fmxvba

repo with this one

ppa:nathan-renniewaldock/xbmc-old-stable

now we get the official 12.3 version.

By the way, Frodo in that Nathan's repo is freshly compiled:

 All third party addons of my interests were found compatible, including very old and obscure, like Macedonian VOD, Seppius, etc.

P.S. I didn't try any of XBMC 14.0 betas or dailies on any of my XBMC-capable computers, maybe someone who has the experience with 14.0 could explain that it would be totally inclusive with old addons and/or work seamlessly with TS and Ace Stream player plugins.

Chances are, 13.0....14.0 versions went other way. So, hello again, 12.3!