{"id":9300,"date":"2019-09-02T14:24:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9300"},"modified":"2019-09-02T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:24:17","slug":"kodi-18-4-released-install-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/kodi-18-4-released-install-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodi (Formerly XBMC) 18.4 Released, How to Install in Ubuntu 18.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/kodi-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kodi media center 18.4 was released today as another bug-fix release for Kodi 18 &#8220;Leia&#8221;. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 19.04.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kodi.tv\/article\/kodi-leia-184-release\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kodi 18.4<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FFmpeg: Bump to 4.0.4-Leia-18.4<\/li>\n<li>Load program from stream property without using streaminfo (video)<\/li>\n<li>Fix initialization of AVD3D11VAContext structure (video, Windows)<\/li>\n<li>Fix TS resume point, related to PR16314 (video)<\/li>\n<li>Fixed memory leak, fixed segfault (video, Linux)<\/li>\n<li>Fix PAPlayer to handle passthrough for TrueHD (audio)<\/li>\n<li>Fix file times for vfs addons<\/li>\n<li>And many interface and general fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/kodi1804-splash-600x273.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"273\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/kodi1804-splash-600x273.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/kodi1804-splash-450x205.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/kodi1804-splash-768x349.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/kodi1804-splash.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Kodi 18.4 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~team-xbmc\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kodi stable PPA<\/a> has made the new release packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.04, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcut or from application menu. When it opens, paste below command and hit run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kodi-ppa-bionic-600x94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kodi-ppa-bionic-600x94.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kodi-ppa-bionic-450x71.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/kodi-ppa-bionic.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then either upgrading Kodi from an existing version via <b>Software Updater<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or refresh system package cache and install Kodi 18.4 via commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install kodi<\/pre>\n<p>For Ubuntu 18.04 and higher, you can skip the <code>apt update<\/code> command as it&#8217;s done automatically in step 1.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-kodi-600x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-kodi-600x350.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-kodi-450x263.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-kodi-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/install-kodi.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the Kodi PPA repository, simply open <b>Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/remove-kodippa-450x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/remove-kodippa-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/remove-kodippa-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/remove-kodippa.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To remove Kodi, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --autoremove kodi kodi-data kodi-bin<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/remove-kodi-600x108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"108\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/remove-kodi-600x108.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/remove-kodi-450x81.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/remove-kodi.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kodi media center 18.4 was released today as another bug-fix release for Kodi 18 &#8220;Leia&#8221;. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 19.04. Kodi 18.4 release highlights: FFmpeg: Bump to 4.0.4-Leia-18.4 Load program from stream property without using streaminfo (video) Fix initialization of AVD3D11VAContext structure (video, Windows) Fix TS resume point, [&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],"class_list":["post-9300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-kodi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300","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=9300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}