[basilgello]

Setting up Trixie is better because it is backed by whole Debian ecosystem: you get newest library updates (though pure security updates might have 1-3 day delays compared to stable), friendly community and estabilished bug tracking process. Flatpak on the other side fetches separate Ubuntu runtime that is very rarely updated as a whole.

I have been using testing since 2019 (when testing was bullseye) and my money is where my mouth is

[gavinstevenson]

Wanted to check in and see how the effort was going to get a more recent version of Kodi pushed into Debian Stable.

As a refresher: Kodi on Debian 12 still shows a collection of packages from around the ~v20.1 release time frame. There have been a number of important security and stability updates which greatly improve the end user experience and resolve some crashing behavior over the 20.2, 20.3, and 20.4 release cycles.

I understand Debian is infamous for shipping old and out-of-date software, but it would be great to get the latest point release (20.5) of the major version (v20) that shipped with Debian 12.

If we can't do that because Debian isn't willing to play ball, I'd be supportive of either escalating within Debian via some kind of conflict resolution path. If that doesn't work, the only alternative might just be spinning up a separate repository owned by Kodi (but I'd see that as the least preferred solution).

[izprtxqkft]

the only alternative might just be spinning up a separate repository owned by Kodi

kodi doesn't own or operate any Debian repository, or a repository for any linux for that matter

[hungry person]

Did I understand correctly from the previous page that v 22 alpha is on experimental?

If so, should I expect it to have shown up here?: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/video/

[gavinstevenson]

kodi doesn't own or operate any Debian repository, or a repository for any linux for that matter

Yes, but it is something that was proposed earlier in this thread as a possibility. If we want to make Kodi as easy as possible to run for as many users as possible, and if working with Debian's FTP team is proving to be too burdensome, this could be a reasonable solution.

I initially advocated against it for all the reasons outlined in one of my earlier responses, but if @basilgello continues to face roadblocks in updating Kodi on the official Debian repos when other packages (productivity packages like LibreOffice, web browsers, etc.) receive updates, we might be better served by spinning up our own Debian package repo (which would come).

In terms of release strategies, we could adopt something pretty simple:

1. Ship whatever the latest version of Kodi is at that point in time in the Debian official repos each time Debian is ready to cut a new major release. For those who are fine running outdated software, this might be perfectly acceptable. (Note: Debian 12 is now 18 months old, and the version of Kodi shipping in the Debian package repo is even older.)
   
2. For users who want more up-to-date releases, they could add Kodi's Debian repo to their sources.list and get point releases and major releases independent of Debian's release cycle.
   

[izprtxqkft]

Yes, but it is something that was proposed earlier in this thread as a possibility. If we want to make Kodi as easy as possible to run for as many users as possible

kodi has dropped it's ubuntu repo in favor of maintaining flatpak for the reason you noted, making it more available to more linux users, but you think they're "just" going to start a debian repo
i doubt it but my opinion doesn't matter here, as a regular user i have no insight to what or why team-kodi does or may do

[Pampero]

Kodi crashes on startup after install. Never got it to start.

https://paste.kodi.tv/ewuduvedum.kodi

[Pampero]

Using MX Linux MX-23.4 64 bit

[basilgello]

Using MX Linux MX-23.4 64 bit

Something wrong with your tzdata and/or

/etc/localtime

You need to do as root

shell:


dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

and see if it helps.

[vesp]

Using MX Linux MX-23.4 64 bit

Something wrong with your tzdata and/or

/etc/localtime

You need to do as root

shell:


dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

and see if it helps.

hey, i had the same problem, albeit not in mx but rather mint and ubuntu. i tried changing the time of the system to new york and that got rid of the crashes. so thanks!

[milomak]

in debian sid (using proprietary nvidia drivers and the debian multimedia repo), the following upgrade causes kodi to crash

Code:


[UPGRADE] kodi:amd64 5:21.1-dmo2 -> 5:21.1-dmo3+b1
[UPGRADE] kodi-data:amd64 5:21.1-dmo2 -> 5:21.1-dm


nvidia drivers

Code:


ii  firmware-nvidia-graphics                                    20241210-1                             all          Binary firmware for Nvidia GPU chips
ii  firmware-nvidia-gsp                                         535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA GSP firmware
ii  glx-alternative-nvidia                                      1.2.2                                  amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii  libegl-nvidia0:amd64                                        535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary EGL library
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:amd64                               535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX library (GLVND variant)
ii  libglx-nvidia0:amd64                                        535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary GLX library
ii  libnvidia-cfg1:amd64                                        535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library
ii  libnvidia-egl-wayland1:amd64                                1:1.1.16-1                             amd64        Wayland EGL External Platform library -- shared library
ii  libnvidia-eglcore:amd64                                     535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary EGL core libraries
ii  libnvidia-glcore:amd64                                      535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX core libraries
ii  libnvidia-glvkspirv:amd64                                   535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary Vulkan Spir-V compiler library
ii  libnvidia-ml1:amd64                                         535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library
ii  libnvidia-pkcs11-openssl3:amd64                             535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA PKCS #11 Library (OpenSSL 3)
ii  libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler1:amd64                             535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA PTX JIT Compiler library
ii  libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler1:i386                              535.216.03-1                           i386         NVIDIA PTX JIT Compiler library
ii  libnvidia-rtcore:amd64                                      535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary Vulkan ray tracing (rtcore) library
ii  nvidia-alternative                                          535.216.03-1                           amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii  nvidia-driver                                               535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA metapackage
ii  nvidia-driver-bin                                           535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii  nvidia-driver-libs:amd64                                    535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES libraries)
ii  nvidia-egl-common                                           535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary EGL driver - common files
ii  nvidia-egl-icd:amd64                                        535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA EGL installable client driver (ICD)
ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup                                    20240109+1                             amd64        cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer
ii  nvidia-kernel-common                                        20240109+1                             amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii  nvidia-kernel-dkms                                          535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
ii  nvidia-kernel-support                                       535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii  nvidia-legacy-check                                         535.216.03-1                           amd64        check for NVIDIA GPUs requiring a legacy driver
ii  nvidia-modprobe                                             550.78-1                               amd64        utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes
ii  nvidia-persistenced                                         535.216.01-2                           amd64        daemon to maintain persistent software state in the NVIDIA dri
ver
ii  nvidia-settings                                             535.216.01-1                           amd64        tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii  nvidia-smi                                                  535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA System Management Interface
ii  nvidia-support                                              20240109+1                             amd64        NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
ii  nvidia-suspend-common                                       535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA driver - systemd power management scripts
rc  nvidia-tesla-470-alternative                                470.256.02-4                           amd64        allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider (Tesla 470 vers
ion)
ii  nvidia-vaapi-driver:amd64                                   0.0.13-1                               amd64        VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as a backend
ii  nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64                                   535.216.03-1                           amd64        Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix - NVIDIA driver
ii  nvidia-vulkan-common:i386                                   535.216.03-1                           i386         NVIDIA Vulkan driver - common files
ii  nvidia-vulkan-icd:amd64                                     535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA Vulkan installable client driver (ICD)
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nvidia                                   535.216.03-1                           amd64        NVIDIA binary Xorg driver


[basilgello]

in debian sid (using proprietary nvidia drivers and the debian multimedia repo), the following upgrade causes kodi to crash

debian-multimedia repo (dmo) is not an official Debian repository. Official version in Debian sid is now 2:21.2+dfsg-1
Please reach DMO maintainer if you want to keep using DMO builds or delete DMO repo and reinstall kodi and addons from debian sid and reproduce the error so I can help.

[vesp]

I'm having this issue with the omega version of kodi in which when a timestamp is created due to closing a movie (it only happens in movies and not tv shows for some reason) at a midpoint and then returning to the main menu, the timestamp which initially logs the time to resume to correctly, then changes to this number which is always the same: 25620:28:40.

i can only reproduce the problem with one old desktop pc (ga-ma785gm-us2h + phenom II x4 940c) using linux.

https://paste.kodi.tv/misedudana.kodi

[DaVu]

This is not "Kodi from Debian" anymore. Now you installed the Kodi Flatpak version. Hence I requested the debug log in the thread you started.