Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, XBMC was a famous open source media hub and home theater PC, being translated in more than 30 languages. Also, its features can be highly extended via third party plugins and extensions and has support for PVR (personal video recorder).
Starting with XBMC 14, the open-source software will be renamed to Kodi Entertainment Center, Kodi 14 being the first release.
The latest stable version available is Kodi 14.2, which has been released a while ago, bringing fixes and new features:
- Fix: Gap-less playback on MP3
- Fix: Playback of rtmp protocol
- Fix: Scanning of newly added episodes
- Fix: Fix multipath source scanning
- Fix: Loading external subtitles in some cases
- Fix: packaging of PIL module on Android. This fixes some script error when using weather add-on
- Fix: Fix video playback on all platform after refresh rate change
- Fix: Various bugs that were present in PVR add-ons.
- Fix: Save weather location
- Fix: Fix filtering of foreign add-ons
- Fix: ftps handling
In this article I will show you how to install Kodi 14.2 “Helix” on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04 and Linux Lite 2.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Kodi 14.2 “Helix” on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivative system is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the xbmc package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install kodi
Also, to install the encode addon, do:
$ sudo apt-get install kodi-audioencoder-* kodi-pvr-*
Optional, to remove kodi, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove kodi
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