[ysolomin]

Hello,

I am a newbie with this stuff, so please excuse the questions.

A friend asked me to help with configuration of Kodi on their raspberry Pi. It is a square box. When I turn it on and connect it to a HDMI monitor I see a GUI.

I modified the settings and the system recognizes my HDMI monitor.

I then opened a terminal window and did the following commands:
 sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

These commands executed successfully.

I now try launching Kodi.

When it starts, my screen goes black, and then I am returned to the GUI. Nothing else happens.

Can someone assist me and tell me what I have to do to get this working? Obviously I am doing something wrong.

Thanks,

Solomin

[rascas]

A debug log is needed for us to see the exact problem but you if you are using Raspbian (probably since you mentioned apt-get) I recommend you to follow this guide:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt...6&t=192499

If you are going to use only Kodi on it, probably it is easier to use LibreELEC or OSMC instead.

[Klojum]

A friend asked me to help with configuration of Kodi on their raspberry Pi. It is a square box.

Those boxes are indeed usually square, yes.

I'm guessing you are using Raspbian as an OS for Kodi.
There are simpler solutions where Kodi is installed directly: have a look at LibreELEC and install it on a separate MicroSD card if necessary. Just sekect the correct image for either the RPI 0/1 or 2/3.