Those missing applications sound like some dependy issues. Enabling extras-devel once only to install xbmcremote should help.


Anyway, you got it installed. Have you checked these:

1. Have you installed xbmc on your desktop-pc/htpc from here: http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/ ? For now you need to use one of the nightly builds...

2. If so, have you checked that settings->network looks like this?


You can change "port" if you like to.
You can't use username and password for now!

3. Enter the ip-address of your dektop-pc/htpc and the port from above in the settings-dialog of xbmcremote on your n900.

It should connect now.