Kodi v17 1 Krypton is Released Install in Ubuntu 17 04 Zesty Ubuntu 16 10 Yakkety Ubuntu 16 04 Xenial

Kodi v17 1 Krypton is Released Install in Ubuntu 17 04 Zesty Ubuntu 16 10 Yakkety Ubuntu 16 04 Xenial

What is Kodi ?

Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.

Fixes done in this release:

• Update Estuary and Estouchy with some bugfixes and improvements
• Fix EDL skipping
• Fix slow song smartplaylist
• Several PVR fixes
• Update Chorus webinterface
• Fix addons not being marked broken when they are updated with broken flag
• Add limiter on random songs which should prevent large memory usage on big libraries
• Improve keyboard mapping during button mapping
• Improve analog stick handling
• Improve plugin performance when building the content list
• Include RTMP inputstream add-on for Windows
• Don�t close subtitle stream when switching audio
• Fix replaygain for music files
• Fix controllers buttons on Android
• Fix music cleanup hanging on large MySQL music database
• Fix use of SMB on Android on new installs
• Fix possible Kodi upgrade migration hang during add-on update process
• Add check in Windows installer for Service Packs and updates that Kodi needs to operate
• Don�t try to read tags from internet audio streams
• Add setting to disable controller rumble on notifications

A full list can be found here and here.

How to Install Kodi 17.1 (Krypton)  on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA :

To Install Kodi 17.1 (Krypton)  on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak, Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya and Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana derivative system via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

To install a beta/unstable version of Kodi you must first add the unstable repository, then install XBMC. Use ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

Enter to continue adding PPA kodi on ubuntu system :

Update ubuntu repository and Install Kodi :

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install kodi

After installation is finished, open kodi on ubuntu dashboard, like this :

Note that if you have any addons (such as PVR clients), these must be updated as well (they will not be updated automatically):

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install kodi-pvr-mythtv

Upgrading

To update Kodi when a new version is released, just do a general system/package or use the following commands in the terminal (or via SSH):

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Note: In some cases where additional packages are required, Kodi will fail to upgrade when using the upgrade commands as above. To install additional packages use the command below:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Uninstalling / Removing

If you need to remove and purge an application and finally removing/purging also the application configurations files, do so by using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get remove kodi*

sudo apt-get purge kodi* 

Source Code

Stable release sources are available on github as tar.gz or here. Current development is done in our git repository. The source can be viewed online at github or cloned:

$ git clone git://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git

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