[gargamon]

Hi,
It looks like there's a new version of kodi. V21 or Omega. The kodi.tv site links to some Ubuntu nonsense called Flatpak to do the install. Where and when will there be a .deb available?
Thanks.

Flatpak has nothing to do with ubuntu. It is a distro independent packaging format with sandboxing.

I'll wait for the deb, thanks. Flatpak looks like another version of, what was it, snap?

[htpcero]

Just to report AV1 hardware decoding success with Kodi 21 flatpak on my N100 home server. Even HDR10 seems to work although I am not clear on how to confirm this, at least HDR content now gets detected and there is an option in the setting to activate support.

Huge kudos to the people that are putting the kodi flatpak together. I could launch it from a systemd service, same as I was doing with the kodi binary before, in GBM mode / standalone, with no X11 nor wayland, no desktop environment. This is on ubuntu 23.10. The flatpak comes with all the binary addons included, custom ffmpeg etc, so you get the developer-intended kodi experience out of the box. So much better than the distro packages for standalone use cases, it's awesome.

[technick_fr]

Hi,

my solution to install on debian is.... format an install arch linux which is really up to date (I also do it on my desktop to have kde plasma 6) !

Arch install
boot to archlinux usb key
command to install is "archinstall"
install in english (need for remote)
just xorg / no audio system (alsa will be installed with kodi)
add a user "kodi"
don't forget to copy network setting from install

After reboot :
loadkeys fr (if you are french ;-) )
su
pacman -Suy   (update all)
pacman -S openssh
systemctl start sshd
systemctl enable sshd

Now from remote ssh :

we need to install yay to have contribution packages:

sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

kodi install :

sudo pacman -S kodi

No problem to make kodi auto start at boot :

yay kodi-standalone-service
sudo systemctl start kodi-x11
sudo systemctl enable kodi-x11

and somes addons if need

yay kodi-addon-pvr-hts
yay kodi-addon-inputstream-adaptive-git

look here : (.git are compiled from master)
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?K=kodi

work fine with quick installation and up to date kodi ;-)

[Zuzia]

Kodi v21 Omega for Debian 12 bookworm is now in backports www.deb-multimedia.org. I know it's an unofficial repository, but it works great and doesn't install a ton of unnecessary stuff like Flatpack.

[basilgello]

Update on v21 situation

I have prepared v21 upload prior to official release but Debian goes under the most extensive transition in its history and all uploads are stuck for months.
This means I can not upload bookworm-backports too because v21 can not reach testing / trixie.

The transition in Debian aims to solve Year 2038 datetime problem for 32bit architectures but affects nearly hslf of Debian packages (~40.000 packagee to be sure).

I sm eorking with Debian colleagues to solve this,issue and bring new Kodi to Debian testing.

[snowfood]

Hello all, I'm new to Kodi on Debian. Ive just done a fresh install on headless bullseye and am getting the following when I type 'kodi' frol cli...

failed to open zone.tab

I notice the same message reported in post 38 but in my case, the process doesn't crash out and Kodi starts and runs OK. I get the message again when I quit or restart Kodi. Should I worry about it?

[snowfood]

S'okay, forget it. It wasn't a problem seemlingly and I've abandoned it as a project now anyway and reverted back to LibreElec. For the record, I was also having issues with PVR and CEC - the latter being a bit of a show stopper for me.

[technick_fr]

Same here, after 1 week on arch linux a python update break some plugins, another kernel update break near everything. I don't want use all my weekends to install Kodi... LibreElec is on test and the htpc hardware update is now in pause.

[basilgello]

OK, migration to testing has been resumed so I will upload 21.0 this weekend! And will do backport of 20.5 for bookworm-bpo and initiate 20.5 imto bookworm-proposed-updates.

[simba82]

OK, migration to testing has been resumed so I will upload 21.0 this weekend! And will do backport of 20.5 for bookworm-bpo and initiate 20.5 imto bookworm-proposed-updates.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place; https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/kodi has 20.1 as latest version.
Do you know if this by any chance includes a recent compiled inputstream.adaptive package?

[basilgello]

OK, migration to testing has been resumed so I will upload 21.0 this weekend! And will do backport of 20.5 for bookworm-bpo and initiate 20.5 imto bookworm-proposed-updates.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place; https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/kodi has 20.1 as latest version.
Do you know if this by any chance includes a recent compiled inputstream.adaptive package?

21.0 for bookworm can be shipped only in backports as it targets ffmpeg 6.0. But 20.x branch of inputstream.adaptive is latest in bookworm via kodi-inputstream-adaptive package. Is there anything with that version of IA that does not work as expected?

[technick_fr]

Hi, I test it. For instance all work fine for me except the web interface.

[chris42]

OK, migration to testing has been resumed so I will upload 21.0 this weekend! And will do backport of 20.5 for bookworm-bpo and initiate 20.5 imto bookworm-proposed-updates.

Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place; https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/kodi has 20.1 as latest version.
Do you know if this by any chance includes a recent compiled inputstream.adaptive package?

21.0 for bookworm can be shipped only in backports as it targets ffmpeg 6.0. But 20.x branch of inputstream.adaptive is latest in bookworm via kodi-inputstream-adaptive package. Is there anything with that version of IA that does not work as expected?

It should be in bookworm-backports? I can't find it in a live system, nor in the package web search. Limiting to bookworm-backports it even does not find any package kodi?

Package kodi
buster (oldoldstable) (video): Open Source Home Theatre (executable binaries)
2:17.6+dfsg1-4+deb10u1 [security]: amd64 arm64 armhf i386
bullseye (oldstable) (video): Open Source Home Theatre (executable binaries)
2:19.1+dfsg2-2+deb11u1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ppc64el s390x
bullseye-backports (video): Open Source Home Theatre (executable binaries)
2:19.4+dfsg2-2~bpo11+1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ppc64el s390x
bookworm (stable) (video): Open Source Home Theatre (executable binaries)
2:20.1+dfsg-1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ppc64el s390x
trixie (testing) (video): Open Source Home Theatre (executable binaries)
2:20.5+dfsg-2+b1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ppc64el s390x
sid (unstable) (video): Open Source Home Theatre (executable binaries)
2:20.5+dfsg-2+b1: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 m68k ppc64 ppc64el riscv64 s390x sparc64
2:20.5+dfsg-2 [debports]: x32
2:20.4+dfsg-1 [debports]: sh4
2:17.6+dfsg1-2+b1 [debports]: alpha

[technick_fr]

Hi,

You need to add :

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports contrib non-free non-free-firmware main

to /etc/apt/sources.list

and install with

apt install -t bookworm-backports kodi

same for xorg and samba (for dependency) ;-)

ps : I start from a brand new install with only ssh.

[chris42]

And you are sure that you installed the 21 Version?

With "apt-get install -t bookworm-backports kodi -s" I get a

Code:

[...]
Inst kodi-data (2:20.1+dfsg-1 Debian:12.5/stable [all])
Inst kodi (2:20.1+dfsg-1 Debian:12.5/stable [amd64])
Inst kodi-repository-kodi (2:20.1+dfsg-1 Debian:12.5/stable [all])
[...]


=> It automatically falls back to stable

With "apt-get install kodi/bookworm-backports -s":

Code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package kodi is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Release 'bookworm-backports' for 'kodi' was not found


On Debian Tracker, or allpackages I can also find no 21 Version.