So I just updated to Fedora 33 only to find that they decided to ship an alpha version of Kodi 19. This seems like a bad idea at the best of times, but it's even worse in this release because of the Python transition, which means lots of plugins are still missing.
Luckily I managed to coble together a 18.9 installation using packages from the F32 repositories.
Let this be a warning to people running Kodi on Fedora: hold off on updating to F33 until Kodi 19 is usable.
(2020-11-13, 18:59)paol Wrote: [ -> ]So I just updated to Fedora 33 only to find that they decided to ship an alpha version of Kodi 19. This seems like a bad idea at the best of times, but it's even worse in this release because of the Python transition, which means lots of plugins are still missing.
Luckily I managed to coble together a 18.9 installation using packages from the F32 repositories.
Let this be a warning to people running Kodi on Fedora: hold off on updating to F33 until Kodi 19 is usable.
there is a 18.
8 avaiable - and I guess they will update it to 18.9 in the near future - :
https://flathub.org/apps/details/tv.kodi.Kodi
(2020-11-13, 18:59)paol Wrote: [ -> ]Let this be a warning to people running Kodi on Fedora: hold off on updating to F33 until Kodi 19 is usable.
Lol, kodi 19 already has been usable for months.
(2020-11-13, 18:59)paol Wrote: [ -> ]which means lots of plugins are still missing.
You don't need addons at all in order to use Kodi.
If you are using piracy crap and it's missing in Kodi 19 - it's not Fedora devs fault, it's not Kodi devs fault, you are on your own.
(2020-11-13, 19:23)sixpack58 Wrote: [ -> ] (2020-11-13, 18:59)paol Wrote: [ -> ]So I just updated to Fedora 33 only to find that they decided to ship an alpha version of Kodi 19. This seems like a bad idea at the best of times, but it's even worse in this release because of the Python transition, which means lots of plugins are still missing.
Luckily I managed to coble together a 18.9 installation using packages from the F32 repositories.
Let this be a warning to people running Kodi on Fedora: hold off on updating to F33 until Kodi 19 is usable.
there is a 18.8 avaiable - and I guess they will update it to 18.9 in the near future - :
https://flathub.org/apps/details/tv.kodi.Kodi
Ah yes, flatpacks are also an option. I was referring to the distro RPMs.
(2020-11-13, 19:27)asavah Wrote: [ -> ]You don't need addons at all in order to use Kodi.
If you are using piracy crap and it's missing in Kodi 19 - it's not Fedora devs fault, it's not Kodi devs fault, you are on your own.
Piracy crap like a weather addons and vimeo player? Don't be an ass.
Okay, children... Be nice to each other. If you want to or not.
I agreed with @
asavah, no issues running v19, alpha or not. Also, it seems like @
paol needs to take this up with the Fedora guys. These forums are really for support not Distro-packaging.
(2020-11-13, 19:27)asavah Wrote: [ -> ] (2020-11-13, 18:59)paol Wrote: [ -> ]Let this be a warning to people running Kodi on Fedora: hold off on updating to F33 until Kodi 19 is usable.
You don't need addons at all in order to use Kodi.
If you are using piracy crap and it's missing in Kodi 19 - it's not Fedora devs fault, it's not Kodi devs fault, you are on your own.
In that case why don't we just phase out addons and skins completely... OP is correct, it's an alpha release and many addons (including official addons) and skins are simply not ready.
It's not uncommon for devs, including those for skins, to wait until Kodi starts with Beta or even Final stages, just to avoid any system/skin changes along the way. No one wants to do twice the work.
(2020-11-13, 20:44)FXB78 Wrote: [ -> ]In that case why don't we just phase out addons and skins completely... OP is correct, it's an alpha release and many addons (including official addons) and skins are simply not ready.
Meh, there always will be someone complaining "Why did they update so early?" vs "Why haven't they updated yet?"
I guess it depends on the use case.
For addons - I only need 2: youtube and an addon I wrote myself for my needs )
For skins - I'm more than happy with estuary.
Been building v19 from git since Leia was branched and master became M* , no problems at all so far, it gets better and better and in the last few weeks a bunch of very nice improvements has landed ...
My experience from yesterday: F33 updates to Kodi Alpha 3. Consequence: my pvr.hts no more working (not compatible) , I need to recompile it. Other incompatibility: the plug-in inputstream.adaptive (I had to compile it, the one from Fedora is too old). Shame Fedora updates Kodi without updating the corresponding repo's addons, sorry asavah, it's the Fedora team fault! Now all is working, including youtube plugin
(2020-11-14, 09:31)enigma7 Wrote: [ -> ]Shame Fedora updates Kodi without updating the corresponding repo's addons, sorry asavah, it's the Fedora team fault!
This indeed is their fault, binary addons should be provided and updated by the distro.
(2020-11-14, 14:14)asavah Wrote: [ -> ] (2020-11-14, 09:31)enigma7 Wrote: [ -> ]Shame Fedora updates Kodi without updating the corresponding repo's addons, sorry asavah, it's the Fedora team fault!
This indeed is their fault, binary addons should be provided and updated by the distro.
"Fedora's Kodi" comes from rpmfusion and I guess - running RH/Fedora ~20 years - the maintainer there made his thoughts to go with Kodi 19 alpha.
btw: Kodi is beta 1
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18772/files
(2020-11-14, 18:16)sixpack58 Wrote: [ -> ]the maintainer there made his thoughts to go with Kodi 19 alpha.
He obviously didn't make enough thoughts or he has no idea about how kodi binary addons work if he didn't update/rebuild the binary addons after bumping Kodi.
http://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/packagein...kageID=508
Someone who uses Fedora + rpmfusion should make the maintainer aware about his oversight.