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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.
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(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
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Okay, children... Be nice to each other. If you want to or not.
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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.
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2020-11-14, 09:31
(This post was last modified: 2020-11-14, 09:36 by enigma7.)
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
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2020-11-14, 18:16
(This post was last modified: 2020-11-14, 18:29 by User 427324.)
(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