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With the advent of the latest generation of Raspberry pi 2 devices. The Pi has become far more capable than ever before. I would be brilliant to have a raspbian/debian native package to install on the pi in just the same was as we do with Ubuntu etc.
Instead of having 'dedicated' kodi distros like openelec/xbian etc.
Raspbian is the foundations default OS, being able to mediacentre enable a pi by adding kodi raspbian sources and then installing with sudo apt-get install kodi would be fantastic.
Any ideas how we might get the team to put a native pi build on the release schedule.
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I think it's just because we haven't had anyone who's wanted to volunteer and maintain it, which is probably because they feel it's an area well covered by other distros, and specific distros were best for the Pi1. With the Pi2, it's not as vital to be so "bare metal" (I'm not sure if I'm using that term correctly?), so hopefully someone is interested now.
The average user would still likely want to use one of the dedicated distros, but there's certainly some interesting situations where someone would rather use Raspbian (either in full from the Pi Foundation, or a light weight version of it) for a Kodi-related project/set up. Of course, people can compile Kodi, but even on a more powerful Pi2, I imagine that still takes a lot longer than it would to download :)
If someone is interested, either on Team Kodi or outside the group, and the builds meet our groups expectations (using internal ffmpeg library, for example), then I think the group would think about making it "official" or whatever.
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2015-02-10, 02:51
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Ned,
Many thanks for your reply. I certainly hope someone from the group takes up the challenge. The Pi 2 is a very capable machine, it runs a pretty full featured desktop really well it would be great to be able to install and run Kodi natively. We have a use for it in education were we want to have a kodi mediacenter and a full education desktop. I think more people will come around to the merits of this approach with the Pi 2 and the Arm V7 optimised raspbian platform.
I'll keep banging the drum.
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I just realized an interesting thing about the English language. There's an error in your paragraph, and it could be corrected in two totally different ways.
"where we want" and "were we wont." The second version is admittedly pretty archaic and doesn't make a ton of sense, but totally sounds cooler.
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Yeah that would be nice, but having to copy paste a few extra commands is no big deal - especially when compared to compiling kodi yourself.
I'm not sure about Debian but in Ubuntu you need to install a ppa to get the latest version of kodi, otherwise you're stuck with something a bit newer than whatsbin raspbian (and a beta too if memory serves me correctly). Maybe it will change once Ubuntu (and Debian?) switch back to ffmpeg from libav.
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Sure, but not every Raspberry Pi user is as comfortable with Linux and third party repositories as more advanced users - even copy/pasting a few commands can be rather daunting when the user doesn't know what they're doing and might be concerned their actions will trash their new system.
So it would be nice to have a stable, supported build from the standard Raspbian repositories. Custom and bleeding edge builds could still come from third-party repos, catering the more advanced/adventurous crowd.
I'm really not sure why more recent versions of XBMC/Kodi haven't made it into the standard repositories, I wonder if there's a lot of tinkering required to make it build which has often been a problem with large packages in the past.
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2015-02-10, 09:29
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Dont quote me on this, but I think it has something to do with ffmpeg/libav, but in saying that as far back as I can remember the only way to get a current xbmc build in *buntu was to venture outside the default package system.
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2015-02-10, 11:20
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Is that a restriction for Raspbian, though? I'm hoping not :)
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2015-02-10, 11:44
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Not quite. While Xbian and OSMC can give someone a Kodi + bare Raspbian setup, there's still situations where someone has an existing image/setup/whatever they wish to add Kodi to. They are still good options for many other situations, though.