[Altherion]

Hi everyone...

Hope I don't bother you with this question. I'm kinda noob with linux.

I have an old laptop which I use exclusively to watch my media with Kodi. In this laptop I've tried several linux distros since 2 years ago (Ubuntu, Mint, LXLE, Xubuntu) looking for better performance in this old machine... One month ago, I switched to Debian 8.1 XFCE out of curiosity to try this distro. Everything goes fine, but I can't get the latest Kodi 15.1 in this system, I'm "stuck" on helix 14.2

I've installed Kodi following the guide of the wiki, adding the official Kodi PPA to Debian (using this trick to add Ubuntu PPA's on Debian) AND I also have the "deb-multimedia" packages added on my sources.list, but whenever I try to update kodi, it says I've already have the latest version.

I know I might be doing something wrong, and that's why i'm here for some nice advice.

I would have no problem going back to mint or xubuntu, but i'd rather stick and mess around a little longer with debian.

Thanks in advance

[Prof Yaffle]

sudo apt-cache policy kodi will tell you what's available in the PPAs you have defined, what's installed and where it came from.

You have done an apt-get update first, haven't you...?

PS

IMO, unless you're passionate about Debian's genuinely-free-software philosophy, I think you'd be better off with something like Xubuntu because most things seem to be Ubuntu first if they're not dual Debian-and-Ubuntu PPAs. It's genuinely personal choice, though, and I'm sure there're dozens of people who'd shoot me down for such sacrilegious speech.

[orangeli]

My sources list in Debian 8 has the following for Kodi:

deb http://debian.mur.at/debian-multimedia/ stable main
deb-src http://debian.mur.at/debian-multimedia/ stable main

How is it possible to install Isengard over Kodi 14.2 Git:Unknown ?

[Prof Yaffle]

Have you tried simply updating - using whatever graphical package manager Debian gives, or sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade from the command line?

The apt-cache policy command above will tell you if there's an upgrade available if you want to check first. There appear to be packages, though I don't know if the dmo suffix makes any difference... http://debian.mur.at/debian-multimedia/p.../kodi-dmo/

[orangeli]

I did try apt-get update and apt-get install kodi.

[Prof Yaffle]

And sudo apt-cache policy kodi* says...? (pastebin the output and link here, please)

[orangeli]

http://pastebin.com/kvXVmu9A

[Prof Yaffle]

Apologies, I was offline for a couple of days.

From digging into the PPA, it looks like 15.2 is classed as "unstable" vs 14.0 which is the "stable" offering.

See:

https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mir...4/Packages

and

https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mir...4/Packages

with the resultant deb files here:

https://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mir.../kodi-dmo/

My best guess is to switch to the unstable branch, and then apt-get update && apt-get upgrade will bring in 15.2. It will also bring in anything else in that unstable repo, though, so be careful - you may wish to only update Kodi and/or disable the PPA (revert to stable) afterwards.

[orangeli]

Thank you Prof Yaffle!

[Panderine]

Hi!,

I see in the same repos a package for 16 beta 5. But have no clue on how to install it. Why I cant see the description of the 16b5 but I do for the 15.2 for kodi packages ?

http://debian.mur.at/debian-multimedia/p...o1_all.deb

What should I add to my jessie source.lst in order to install jarvis beta 5 as a package from repo?

Thanks !!!