[poi50n]

Can someone please help me figure out why I cannot install kodi on ubuntu desktop 20.04

I have repeatedly followed these steps to no avail https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_for_Linux

Steps I have taken

shell:


$ sudo apt purge kodi # just verifying it was not installed

$ sudo apt install software-properties-common # already on the latest version

$ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:team-xbmc/ppa #

$ ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

total 12

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 227 Jan 14 20:39 plexmediaserver.list

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 227 Jan 14 20:39 plexmediaserver.list.save

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128 Jan 14 20:39 team-xbmc-ubuntu-ppa-focal.list

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Jan 14 20:39 team-xbmc-ubuntu-ppa-focal.list.save

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt install kodi # is the package for debian only 40mb?

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  fonts-noto-core fonts-noto-hinted fonts-noto-ui-core fonts-roboto-unhinted javascript-common kodi-visualization-spectrum

  libjs-iscroll libjs-jquery libpython2-stdlib python-olefile python-pil python-pycryptodome python2 python2-minimal python2.7

  python2.7-minimal

Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

Suggested packages:

  kodi-pvr-mythtv kodi-pvr-vdr-vnsi kodi-pvr-tvheadend-hts kodi-pvr-dvbviewer kodi-pvr-iptvsimple kodi-audioencoder-vorbis

  kodi-audioencoder-flac kodi-audioencoder-lame

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  kodi

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.

Need to get 0 B/20.3 MB of archives.

After this operation, 41.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Selecting previously unselected package kodi.

(Reading database ... 171550 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to unpack .../kodi_6%3a19.3+git20211024.1813-49a04cd6a7-0~focal_all.deb ...

Unpacking kodi (6:19.3+git20211024.1813-49a04cd6a7-0~focal) ...

Setting up kodi (6:19.3+git20211024.1813-49a04cd6a7-0~focal) ...

Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...

Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...

Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) ...

$ kodi

Command 'kodi' not found, but can be installed with:

$ systemctl stuats kodi

Unknown operation stuats.

$ systemctl status kodi

Unit kodi.service could not be found.

$ service kodi status

Unit kodi.service could not be found.

From what I can tell it did install

shell:


$ dpkg -L kodi

/.

/usr

/usr/share

/usr/share/applications

/usr/share/applications/kodi.desktop

/usr/share/doc

/usr/share/doc/kodi

/usr/share/doc/kodi/NEWS.Debian.gz

/usr/share/doc/kodi/README.Debian

/usr/share/doc/kodi/changelog.Debian.gz

...

Looking in /usr/share/applications/kodi.desktop file it seems the command is 'kodi'

Please help me community!

[wsnipex]

please provide the output of
apt policy kodi kodi-bin kodi-data


Debians kodi-data should not be installed, you only want kodi and kodi-bin packages from our PPA

[Preacher]

$ systemctl status kodi
Unit kodi.service could not be found.

Slightly orthogonal to this discussion, but... kodi.service doesn't seem to be part of the kodi package, even though I have one on my (ubuntu) system. 

I can't recall if I created it manually or not... does it came as part of an install?

(I'll happily post a copy of mine here if it helps, @poi50n)

[wsnipex]

the PPA does not provide a systemd service

[poi50n]

shell:


joshua@pandora:~$ apt policy kodi kodi-bin kodi-data

kodi:

  Installed: 6:19.3+git20211024.1813-49a04cd6a7-0~focal

  Candidate: 6:19.3+git20211024.1813-49a04cd6a7-0~focal

  Version table:

 *** 6:19.3+git20211024.1813-49a04cd6a7-0~focal 500

        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

     2:18.6+dfsg1-2ubuntu1 500

        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages

kodi-bin:

  Installed: 2:18.6+dfsg1-2ubuntu1

  Candidate: 6:19.3+git20211024.1813-49a04cd6a7-0~focal

  Version table:

     6:19.3+git20211024.1813-49a04cd6a7-0~focal 500

        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

 *** 2:18.6+dfsg1-2ubuntu1 500

        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

kodi-data:

  Installed: (none)

  Candidate: 2:18.6+dfsg1-2ubuntu1

  Version table:

     2:18.6+dfsg1-2ubuntu1 500

        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages

        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages

[wsnipex]

kodi-bin:   Installed: 2:18.6+dfsg1-2ubuntu1y

sudo apt full-upgrade

[poi50n]

sudo apt full-upgrade

And that did the tick. Thank you so much. Disappointing I didn't try upgrading first :face-palm:

[DarrenHill]

Thread marked solved.