[oneofus1]

Ok so i followed instructions from the wiki
http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_for_Linux

but once i run the last command to install i get the following errors. Please tell me the exact commands i need to run in order to fix this. Im basically a monkey with a machine gun when it comes to linux





~$ sudo apt-get install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kodi : Depends: kodi-bin (>= 2:16.1~git20160424.1410-final-0trusty) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: kodi-bin (< 2:16.1~git20160424.1410-final-0trusty.1~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mesa-utils but it is not installable
Depends: python-bluez but it is not installable or
python-lightblue but it is not installable
Depends: python-simplejson but it is not installable
Depends: libmad0 but it is not installable
Depends: libass5 but it is not installable or
libass4 but it is not installable
Depends: libshairplay0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libaacs0 but it is not installable
Depends: libcec3 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libvdpau1 but it is not installable
Recommends: libva-intel-vaapi-driver but it is not installable or
i965-va-driver but it is not installable
Recommends: libva1 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[wsnipex]

quote from the wiki:
Note: In some cases where additional packages are required, Kodi will fail to upgrade when using the upgrade commands as above. To install additional packages use the command below:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[oneofus1]

thanks, i tried it. same exact errors tho when i tried to install kodi after

[wsnipex]

strange. Please provide the output of
cat /etc/os-release
apt-cache policy kodi kodi-bin