{"id":6639,"date":"2017-03-21T14:59:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6639"},"modified":"2017-03-21T14:59:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T14:59:45","slug":"kodi-17-1-released-how-to-install-it-via-ppa-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/03\/kodi-17-1-released-how-to-install-it-via-ppa-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodi 17.1 Released! How to Install it via PPA in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kodi-icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kodi-icon.jpg\" alt=\"kodi-icon\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/xbmc\/xbmc\/releases\/tag\/17.1-Krypton\" target=\"_blank\">Kodi 17.1<\/a>, the first bug-fix release for the v17 \u201cKrypton\u201d, has been released and made into PPA for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, and Linux Mint 17 &#038; 18.<\/p>\n<p>According to the changelog, Kodi 17.1 brings a huge list of fixes and here are some of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Update Estuary and Estouchy with some bugfixes and improvements<\/li>\n<li>Fix EDL skipping<\/li>\n<li>Fix slow song smartplaylist<\/li>\n<li>Several PVR fixes<\/li>\n<li>Update Chorus webinterface<\/li>\n<li>Fix addons not being marked broken when they are updated with broken flag<\/li>\n<li>Add limiter on random songs which should prevent large memory usage on big libraries<\/li>\n<li>Improve keyboard mapping during button mapping<\/li>\n<li>Improve analog stick handling<\/li>\n<li>Improve plugin performance when building the content list<\/li>\n<li>Include RTMP inputstream add-on for Windows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kodi-Wallpaper-15B-1080p_samfisher-600x336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kodi-Wallpaper-15B-1080p_samfisher-600x336.jpg\" alt=\"Kodi-Wallpaper-15B-1080p_samfisher-600x336\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kodi-Wallpaper-15B-1080p_samfisher-600x336.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Kodi-Wallpaper-15B-1080p_samfisher-600x336-450x252.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the Kodi website does not announced the v17.1 release at the moment, you can now install or upgrade to Kodi 17.1 via following steps:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T or searching for &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from Unity Dash \/ Start Menu. When it opens, run command to add <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~team-xbmc\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\">Kodi PPA<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password (no visual feedback due to security reason) and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kodi-ppa-xenial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kodi-ppa-xenial-600x84.jpg\" alt=\"kodi ppa\" width=\"600\" height=\"84\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kodi-ppa-xenial-600x84.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kodi-ppa-xenial-450x63.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/kodi-ppa-xenial.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade Kodi Media Center from a previous release via <b>Software Updater<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upgrade-kodi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upgrade-kodi-450x314.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade Kodi\" width=\"450\" height=\"314\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upgrade-kodi-450x314.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upgrade-kodi-600x419.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upgrade-kodi.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or run the commands below one by one to install or upgrade Kodi:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install kodi<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, you can either launch Kodi from app launcher or select log in Kodi session at login screen.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kodi 17.1, the first bug-fix release for the v17 \u201cKrypton\u201d, has been released and made into PPA for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, and Linux Mint 17 &#038; 18. According to the changelog, Kodi 17.1 brings a huge list of fixes and here are some of them: Update Estuary and Estouchy with some bugfixes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1196,929],"class_list":["post-6639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-kodi","tag-xbmc-media-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}