[TheXravenX]

what happens if you do apt-get dist-upgrade?

I have done that, no effect. I still get unmet dependencies when trying to install xbmc or kodi. Kodi will look for kodi.bin, and attempting to install xbmc, results in dependency failure from kodi.

I kept digging on this and found that each time I pinned a higher version of a dependency, another dependency popped up. I am running vanilla SteamOS with the latest build (153 i think).

After I could not get that to work, I turned on SteamOS beta. No dice again.

next I edited the preferences file to be

Code:

Package: *
Pin: origin mirrors.xbmc.org
Pin-Priority: 800

Package: *
Pin: release l=SteamOS
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release l=Debian
Pin-Priority: -10

This allowed me to get through the initial error but ran into:

Code:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kodi-bin : Depends: libva-x11-1 (> 1.3.0~) but 1.0.15-4 is to be installed
            Depends: libva1 (> 1.3.0~) but 1.0.15-4 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Sigh.

Next I ran the apt-cache policy on those files and found SteamOS has the updated files I needed. Back to perferences file. It now reads:

Code:

Package: *
Pin: origin mirrors.xbmc.org
Pin-Priority: 800

Package: *
Pin: release l=SteamOS
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release l=Debian
Pin-Priority: -10

Package: libva-x11-1
Pin: release l=SteamOS
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: libva1
Pin: release l=SteamOS
Pin-Priority: 900

tada!!! Kodi 14.1 installs.