Kodi media center, formerly known as XBMC, reached the 17.4 release a few days ago with a bunch of bug-fixes. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, and their derivatives.
Changes in Kodi 17.4 include:
- Potentially fix crashing on Windows due to an issue in Python
- Potentially fix crashing on Windows when enabling zeroconf
- Fix sporadic crash on Windows when installing or updating add-ons
- Fix issue for users with reverse proxies attempting to forward websockets.
- Fix possible issue if Linux distro uses system ffmpeg and cause black screen with 10-bit H.265
- Properly throttle scraping music information online to prevent overloading the provider
- Fix native keyboard on iOS 11
- Fix potential crash on Android O loading App icons
- Fix non showing Kodi banner on Android O
- Fix potential crash on Android with certain keymaps
- Fix wrong detection of VP6 and VP8 videocodec on Android
- Update FFmpeg to 3.1.9
- Set hard requirement to use FFmpeg 3.1.x only
- Fix for Hangup when viewing recording and pressing next/previous
- Fix merged scraped album type and label correctly with that derived from tags from music files
- Fix possible crash on Linux when using ALSA
- Save skin settings immediatly after they have changed instead of only on shutdown
How to Install Kodi 17.4 in Ubuntu:
Kodi has an official PPA that contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 17.04.
1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching it from app launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it asks and hit Enter.
2. For those who have previous release installed, upgrade the media center via Software Updater:
or run commands to check updates and install kodi:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kodi
Once installed, log out and log in back with Kodi session, or launch Kodi from Unity Dash, Gnome app launcher, or other app launcher.
Uninstall:
Run command to purge the PPA which also downgrade Kodi to its stock version in your Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
To remove kodi, either use your system package manager or run command:
sudo apt-get remove --autoremove kodi
This is really great info – made it really easy for me as a relatively new Ubuntu user to get into the Kodi game! Thanks
Ubuntu is great – been using for years on free throw away computers you find in the trash. Runs better than Windows 10. I freq. use an iMac I7 – 8 G of RAM, & high end video card…it is amazing how much ubuntu can do on a 2-core with just 4 G RAM compared to Apple.
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Nice job on the instructions for KODI.
Thanks
I followed these instructions with mixed results… All of the commands completed correctly as described above, however when I went to run Kodi I received the following error messages in my Term session:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kodi : Depends: kodi-bin (>= 2:17.6+git20171114.2125-final-0xenial) but 15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1.1 is to be installed
Depends: libshairplay0 but it is not installable
Depends: libcec4 but it is not installable
Recommends: libvdpau1 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: i965-va-driver but it is not installable or
libva-intel-vaapi-driver but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Pi-User@RasPi3-238:~$ kodi
The program ‘kodi’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install kodi
Pi-User@RasPi3-238:~$
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Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this?
Thank you,
-George