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Hi there - i am running two "productive" Instances of Kodi 14.2 (RC) on two seperate linux (debian) devices.
On my Worstation (Ubuntu) i also run Kodi 14.2 - mainly for testing addons, updates of pvr-stuff and more flexible interactive scraping.
All these Kodi-Instances conect to single mysql-databases for music and video - Metadata. All of them are compiled from git

I would like to test Kodi - master (15.x) on that machibne (Ubuntu) too.
I know that i need to configure for a backup of the database in advanced-settings and most likely it will be easiest if i run kodi with a different user - but:

I would consider dual-boot being an overkill to just test a single application.

How can i make sure that my binaries libs, addons etc. are kept seperate (usr/local/bin - /usr/local/share/kodi, /usr/local/lib/kodi) - what is the preferred approach except from dual-boot?

You can build from source. Those are automatically install to /usr/local ...

since you said, you compile yourself, just start directly out of the source dir, without installing. And use portable mode.

"portable" mode?

ok - found option "-p" for portable mode - will try that.

where will kodi put the .kodi -directory and where/how will i have to build/install the pvr-addons