[jians5]

Fresh install of Kodi on Linux Mint 18.3

Trying to get it set up - but if I install the Backup addon, or the Trakt addon, I can't install any other addons - all installations fail. Also, adding media from my server fails, but works before downloading any addons. I can play videos from the server, I just can't add them or update the library. It's like Kodi's connection to the internet dies if you install one of these addons.

Help?

[Dangelus]

It would help if you could produce and provide a link to your Debug log (wiki). Start debugging then reproduce your issue (installing add-ons from the official repo) so we can see what's going on.

[jians5]

Sorry for the delay.

Here's the log: https://justpaste.it/1im9j

As I said - New install of Kodi. Navigate to addons. Install Trakt - Success. Install anything else - Installation failed. It doesn't matter if I start with Trakt or anything else, all addons seem to fail after the first successful addon install I do, which is usually Backup, Global Search, or Trakt.

I reinstalled Kodi on my Android box yesterday and had no issues at all, on the same network. This PC didn't have issues either until I switched from Windows to Linux Mint. Kodi's super fast on Linux, I like it - but it's useless if I can't add any files or addons to it.

[jians5]

Just tried the Nightly - Now downloads don't fail - they just get stuck at 0%.

There must be something wrong with my config, but what am I supposed to do besides sudo apt-get install kodi?

[wsnipex]

Looks like your system doesn't trust Lets Encrypt certificates.
Make sure you have the ca-certificates package installed and that it's the latest version

[jians5]

A link to a guide or something will be helpful. I'm brand new to Linux. I've managed to find the ca-certificates directory in usr/local/share, but it's empty. Googling "install ca-certificate linux" isn't very helpful. What do I do?

[spiff]

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates

[jians5]

Yeah, I thought so, but:

  ca-certificates is already the newest version (20170717~16.04.1).
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  arduino-core avr-libc avrdude binutils-avr gcc-5-base:i386 gcc-avr
  libbsd0:i386 libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-nouveau2:i386
  libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2:i386 libedit2:i386 libelf1:i386 libexpat1:i386
  libffi6:i386 libftdi1 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386
  libglapi-mesa:i386 libjna-java libjna-jni libllvm5.0:i386 libpciaccess0:i386
  librxtx-java libsensors4:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:i386
  libx11-6:i386 libx11-xcb1:i386 libxau6:i386 libxcb-dri2-0:i386
  libxcb-dri3-0:i386 libxcb-glx0:i386 libxcb-present0:i386 libxcb-sync1:i386
  libxcb1:i386 libxdamage1:i386 libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxfixes3:i386
  libxinerama1:i386 libxshmfence1:i386 libxxf86vm1:i386
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


Still can't download Kodi addons.

Note: I was able to install a bunch of addons - it's just a conflict between particular ones - Trakt and Backup so far are the only two that are preventing other installs/network connection.

[jians5]

Reading around the forums...  https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=315663

Apparently Mint and Kodi don't play well together? Should I grab another distro? I have no affinity for Mint. I do like Cinnamon, but really, I'm good with any GUI with the panel at the bottom. So Ubuntu with KDE or LXDE I guess... Would that help?

[jians5]

This fixed it:

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=323412

...

Nearly reinstalled my OS. Good thing I know how to search for stuff since there isn't much help to be had here.

[HeresJohnny]

Paid support would reply within the hour. But oh, wait... everything here is done by volunteers free of charge. So don't complain.