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EDIT: think I fixed it now, found script.module.dateutil on a kodi mirror. Still be nice to know if you have any idea why it was missing? perhaps something to do with the constant installation failed as I presume it is a dependency and just installed with something else?

I want to chip in here and say that I somewhat disagree with the standard practice that has been adopted by the Kodi team to obfuscate the "Dependancy" addons from view within Kodi. There should be an option to show these types of addon within the repository depending on user-level settings as defined in Kodi itself, i.e: 'Advanced / Expert' level (If this is already the case, I've not seen it). As when dependancies fail to install there is no easy way to re-install these dependancy addons without completely quitting Kodi, trawl across to the repo website, download the required addon(s) and then restart Kodi and manually install them.

The notification for failed addons is also so short, it's sometimes the case that when an addon has multiple dependancies, if one fails, the notification is replaced / gone so quickly by subsequent notifications that the end-user is either unaware, or doesn't know specifically which one failed to install, as Mike has alluded to in his post. And only by scouring the logs can one then reasonably determine what's missing.

For less experienced users, I can see the point of hiding dependancy addons to reduce the amount of needless forum spam related to non-working addons or dependancies that are installed in error, but there ought to be the option for advanced tinkerers to bypass this to be able to install dependancies directly via the Kodi repo without having to jump through unessecary hoops to do so.

My 2p.

Gib.