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I installed a completely fresh copy of ubuntu 16.04 on a new computer...

then followed these instructions:
http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_for_Linux


and when trying to install kodi I get:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kodi-bin : Depends: libmysqlclient18 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.



I searched Google for answers but could not find any...
how to proceed?

ppa needs rebuild, cause of last minute libmysql bump in 16.04

Will happen next week, when our ppa builder is back from holidays.

thanks!

I got something similar-

helena@helena-HP-530-Notebook-PC-GU327AA-ABU:~$ sudo apt-get install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kodi : Depends: kodi-bin (>= 2:17.0~git20160401.0200-72769f6-0xenial) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kodi-bin (< 2:17.0~git20160401.0200-72769f6-0xenial.1~) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libva-intel-vaapi-driver but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

When she's ready to roll again on the new Ubuntu 16.04 please let us know! Thanks in advance!

(2016-04-21, 19:55)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]ppa needs rebuild, cause of last minute libmysql bump in 16.04

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=269812

I got this error:

$ sudo apt-get install kodi

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kodi : Depends: kodi-bin (>= 2:16.0~git20160228.1453-final-0xenial) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kodi-bin (< 2:16.0~git20160228.1453-final-0xenial.1~) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libva-intel-vaapi-driver but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I used the steps in the following link (Compile Kodi):

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master...ADME.linux

Everything works fine now

(2016-04-22, 00:49)qp9013625 Wrote: [ -> ]

(2016-04-21, 19:55)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]ppa needs rebuild, cause of last minute libmysql bump in 16.04

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=269812

That was sooo clear :-) and directly shows that you have not a single idea of what you are talking about ...

Here: www.openelec.tv <- 128 MB _much_, _much_ smaller than a snap package, much, much more optimized - but does it solve the problem users asking for? No, not at all ... for someone that never ever run kodi from a snap container and one that is not even able to build a kodi snap package in now arround 14 days ... you should rather shut up or come back with a snap package that is runnable.


Perhaps to be more clear (as you seem to not know howto build a snap package, which is sad, but hey ...):

Guess what would have happened if we would not have packaged libmysqlxyz statically in our snapcraft.yml? And had chosen the OS provided one? Yeah, you got it - exactly the same. So - in that case, snap had only saved us, if we had linked every dependency or better complete kodi statically against all libs it requires ... is that what you want? A statically compiled kodi ultra large in size?

So for the future:
- If you want snap, implement a simple container for kodi - show us, that it works, compare the performance, compare the file size.
- Handle the issues of adding "non free" code which is used for decoding Dolby audio and many more patented stuff
- Tell us how that should be allowed in ubuntu's software center
- Tell us what we shall do, when a new binary addon is shipped, that was not included in the original snap container. Should we provide again a new snap package, so that user needs to download x hundred MB again and again? And this we should do every time some 3rd party people provide want to provide new addons?
- Show that kodi still works hw decoding wise, especially on nvidia gpus which require a root xserver


If you can do this and it works nicely - then we can provide your snap package. If you don't have answers to the above questions then go somewhere else, cause until those are not solved - we won't and cannot provide a snap container.

ROFL

everything tested perfect last night with 14.04 - 16.04 upgrade

so did fresh OS install to clean things up then this happens ....

Hehe :-) yeah. Will be fixed with a "simple" button press when our packager is back ... Xenail bumped mysql 10 days prior to release and shipped the package some days ago (which btw. also changed the snap comaptibility tool chain and every package that dependend on this mysql version needs to be redone, too - as the system dependency is _gone_)

(2016-04-22, 07:43)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ]A statically compiled kodi ultra large in size?

You guys always mention larger size, yet you fail to come up with an actual number...

What size would it be?

Also, I've got a 1 TB SSD and we're living in an age where 2 TB or even 4 TB HDDs are not unusal. So, talking about size might actually be a bit silly...

But hey, maybe I am wrong. But how should I know if you fail to provide actual numbers for around 14 days now ?

(2016-04-22, 07:43)fritsch Wrote: [ -> ][...] you have not a single idea of what you are talking about ... [...] then go somewhere else [...]

Pls what? In another thread you linked to a mailing list, where _the_ specialists of the snap team themselves talked about:

"Let's make a kodi snap to show everyone how cool snap is" ... and it ended in absolutely nothing and was given up 1 year ago :-(. Additionally it was not understood at the beginning which dependencies a RPi2 for example needs to run. They talked about MIR and other stuff and at the end failed in providing their own dependency (while it was obviously clear, that RPi2 version will never run with MIR as intended).

As I was planning on Upgrading from 15.10 to 16.04, should I not do this now?

(2016-04-22, 14:57)tutu Wrote: [ -> ]As I was planning on Upgrading from 15.10 to 16.04, should I not do this now?

Stay on 15.10, unless you're willing to compile Kodi in 16.04

Hello, dear developers! I have similar problem with libmysqlclient18! Sorry for my english, i'm russian Kodi & Ubuntu fan! I installed Ubuntu MATE 16.04 on my pc, MATE this is my lovely DE. Excellent OS! But i happy not long. Kodi 16.0 not install from PPA with this error (libmysqlclient18 but it is not installable). I cried so much last night! In ubuntu software center only old version Kodi 15.2, and I'm not a necrophiliac. Please fix this problem