[uwekup]

I have a problem. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. I am new to Kodi. I few days ago I downloaded Kodi 16.1 and everything was fine. I thought I had a problem with Kodi and I uninstalled. After that I went right back and installed Kodi. Only to have a whole new version installed. It said Kodi 17.0 Alpha. Which would be all fine and good, except that now none of my add-on work at all. I have no sound or video. Just the blue background. Boy, do I wish I hadn't uninstalled it the first place. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciate.

Thanks!

[nickr]

What is the output of

Code:

apt-cache policy kodi

[uwekup]

this is what i got.

kodi:
Installed: 2:17.0~git20160628.0200-1f9e2a2-0xenial
Candidate: 2:17.0~git20160628.0200-1f9e2a2-0xenial
Version table:
*** 2:17.0~git20160628.0200-1f9e2a2-0xenial 500
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2:16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial 500
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages

[nickr]

SO it looks like 17 is being dragged in because you asked for nightlies. So get rid of the xbmc-nightly ppa!

[Prof Yaffle]

As well as removing the nightly PPA, as nickr said:

http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_XBM...nt_version

... you can force the right version with:

sudo apt-get install kodi=16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial

Note this will attempt to just change Kodi, and not touch addons or dependent packages, vs the wiki steps which remove Kodi and re-install, keeping your userdata intact. I don't know if the outcome is different, as I presume Kodi can test for addon versions, so I offer this as a suggestion only.

[uwekup]

Gentlemen, thanks for the help. But it seems now I can't uninstall Kodi. This is what my terminal screen shows.

uwekup@Hounddog:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for uwekup:
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [94.5 kB]
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB]
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Fetched 189 kB in 2s (75.8 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
uwekup@Hounddog:~$ sudo apt-get remove kodi*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package kodi_crashlog-20160628_234658.log
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'kodi_crashlog-20160628_234658.log'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'kodi_crashlog-20160628_234658.log'
uwekup@Hounddog:~$ sudo apt-get purge kodi*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package kodi_crashlog-20160628_234658.log
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'kodi_crashlog-20160628_234658.log'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'kodi_crashlog-20160628_234658.log

I did try to force the right version first. But it gave my this:

uwekup@Hounddog:~$ sudo apt-get install kodi=16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial[sudo] password for uwekup:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Version '16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial' for 'kodi' was not found

[Prof Yaffle]

First, "kodi*" is pattern-matching all files in that directory, so it's trying to uninstall "kodi_crashlog" et al because that's what it's finding. The easiest fix is to change directory to somewhere where there are no kodi-anything files.

Second, just check the output of apt-cache policy kodi immediately after an apt-get update - and then copy-and-paste the version string from whatever's found there into the apt-get install command.

[jokl81]

I'm having a similar problem, and I would very much appreciate it if someone could help. I had Kodi 15.2 installed and working (on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS), but I wanted to upgrade Kodi to 16.01 Jarvis. Thing is, I don't remember how I installed the 15.2 version (I do remember I had some sort of problems) so when I tried upgrading with the standard commands sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade, it didn't update Kodi. I believe there wasn't any kodi repositories... So I installed those, but then everything went south, now Kodi doesn't launch at all.

When I type "apt-cache policy kodi", I get:

kodi:
Nameščen: 15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1
Kandidat: 2:16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial
Preglednica različic:
2:16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial 500
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
*** 15.2+dfsg1-3ubuntu1 500
500 http://si.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

And if I try removing kodi alltogether, i get, same as @uwekup:

Branje seznama paketov ... Narejeno
Gradnja drevesa odvisnosti
Branje podatkov o stanju ... Narejeno
E: Ni mogoče najti paketa kodi_crashlog-20160425_113346.log
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'kodi_crashlog-20160425_113346.log'
E: Z logičnim izrazom 'kodi_crashlog-20160425_113346.log' ni mogoče najti nobenega paketa
E: Ni mogoče najti paketa kodi_crashlog-20160425_114213.log
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'kodi_crashlog-20160425_114213.log'
E: Z logičnim izrazom 'kodi_crashlog-20160425_114213.log' ni mogoče najti nobenega paketa
E: Ni mogoče najti paketa kodi_crashlog-20160519_095821.log
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'kodi_crashlog-20160519_095821.log'
E: Z logičnim izrazom 'kodi_crashlog-20160519_095821.log' ni mogoče najti nobenega paketa

Please help...

[wsnipex]

read the post above yours as to why you get this error when trying to remove kodi.

You don't need to remove it though, just run
sudo apt-get upgrade