{"id":46009,"date":"2024-03-30T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=46009"},"modified":"2024-03-30T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T16:19:17","slug":"kodi-ppa-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/03\/kodi-ppa-discontinued\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodi Announced Discontinuation of its Ubuntu PPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34893\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature-250x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/kodi-icon-feature.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The popular Kodi media player (formerly XBMC) finally discontinued its official PPA for Ubuntu users.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Meaning that there&#8217;s no official Kodi <code>.deb<\/code> package any more. Users are recommended to use Flatpak package instead!<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu PPA is a popular way to host up-to-date versions of software packages in <code>.deb<\/code> package format. And, <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~wsnipex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolfgang Schupp<\/a> has been maintaining the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~team-xbmc\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kodi Team PPA<\/a> for many years for Ubuntu users. The last version stuck at Kodi 20.2, though there are still add-on updates now and then.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the developer team officially <a href=\"https:\/\/kodi.tv\/article\/ubuntu-team-kodi-ppa-officially-retired\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> the discontinuation of the PPA:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<i>The Team Kodi PPA has long been a staple for Ubuntu (and similar) users wishing to use more recent, and less adulterated, versions of Kodi.<br \/>\nIt is with sadness that the team has come to a decision to officially retire the PPA due to the overhead of maintaining it.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_46010\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/skin-estuary-example.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46010\" class=\"size-large wp-image-46010\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/skin-estuary-example-700x490.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/skin-estuary-example-700x490.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/skin-estuary-example-300x210.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/skin-estuary-example-768x538.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/skin-estuary-example.webp 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from Kodi website<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since the PPA is only for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and their based systems, the developer team decided to focus on Flatpak package, which runs in most Linux distributions using a sandbox environment.<\/p>\n<h3>Install &amp; Update Kodi via Flatpak package<\/h3>\n<p>For Debian, Ubuntu, and their based systems, simply launch a terminal window (<i>press Ctrl+Alt+T on Ubuntu<\/i>), then run the 2 commands below one by one can install the media player as Flatpak:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, run command to enable Flatpak support:\n<pre>sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<p><i>Other Linux can follow the official <a href=\"https:\/\/flatpak.org\/setup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">setup guide<\/a> to get the daemon package.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39141\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-600x229.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-600x229.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-300x115.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-768x294.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy.webp 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Then, use the command below can install Kodi Flatpak package in most Linux:\n<pre>flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/tv.kodi.Kodi.flatpakref<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/flatpak-kodi-jammy.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46011\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/flatpak-kodi-jammy-700x502.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/flatpak-kodi-jammy-700x502.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/flatpak-kodi-jammy-300x215.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/flatpak-kodi-jammy-768x551.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/flatpak-kodi-jammy.webp 894w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, launch Kodi from either start menu or Gnome app grid depends on your desktop environment (log out and back in if app icon not visible).<\/p>\n<p>And, to update the software package, use command:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak update tv.kodi.Kodi<\/pre>\n<h3>Uninstall Kodi Flatpak package<\/h3>\n<p>To uninstall the software package, also launch a terminal window and run command:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak uninstall tv.kodi.Kodi<\/pre>\n<p>To remove the leftover data use <code>flatpak uninstall --delete-data<\/code>, and also run <code>flatpak uninstall --unused<\/code> to remove useless run-time libraries.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Kodi media player (formerly XBMC) finally discontinued its official PPA for Ubuntu users. Meaning that there&#8217;s no official Kodi .deb package any more. Users are recommended to use Flatpak package instead! Ubuntu PPA is a popular way to host up-to-date versions of software packages in .deb package format. 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