kodi installation where

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Sun Nov 19, 2023 9:54 pm

Having got most things working
installed kodi

and tried to run it, and got not found.
so added the ppa and reinstalled

now on a proper OS Linux Mint , it installs in .kodi in my home directory. and typing "kodi" from the CLI starts it

Seems to be a lot of kodi files in /usr/share, bit nothing in odroid, no .kodi directory anywhere.

so how do you run it when nothing in menus ???

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:19 am

I've also tried to compile kodi, but getting a lot of errors
so stuck with what on the ppa

kodi runs on linux mint , just by typing "kodi" on CLI or selecting from the menu in a GUI
but not on the ubuntu22 supplied here, doesn't appear in the gui menu on Mate, and I'm stuck with Mate desktop as using a 42" TV as a monitor it needs
the display increased by 200%, else everything is tiny,
Kodi ran well on a C1 and C2 , slow but usable , So far on a N2+ and ubuntu 22 YUK !

joerg · Post by **joerg** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:58 am

Maybe you can find the installed files with apt-file list kodi?
On my Linux Mint Debian Edition it puts out:

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kodi: /usr/bin/kodi                       
kodi: /usr/bin/kodi-standalone
kodi: /usr/lib/mime/packages/kodi
kodi: /usr/share/applications/kodi.desktop
kodi: /usr/share/doc/kodi/NEWS.Debian.gz
kodi: /usr/share/doc/kodi/README.Debian
kodi: /usr/share/doc/kodi/changelog.Debian.amd64.gz
kodi: /usr/share/doc/kodi/changelog.Debian.gz
kodi: /usr/share/doc/kodi/copyright
kodi: /usr/share/lintian/overrides/kodi
kodi: /usr/share/man/man1/kodi-standalone.1.gz
kodi: /usr/share/man/man1/kodi.1.gz
kodi: /usr/share/metainfo/org.xbmc.kodi.metainfo.xml

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 3:48 am

hi had to install apt-file

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odroid@N2:~/kodi-build$ sudo apt-file list kodi
kodi: /usr/bin/kodi                       
kodi: /usr/bin/kodi-standalone
kodi: /usr/lib/mime/packages/kodi
kodi: /usr/share/applications/kodi.desktop
kodi: /usr/share/doc/kodi/NEWS.Debian.gz
kodi: /usr/share/doc/kodi/README.Debian
kodi: /usr/share/doc/kodi/changelog.Debian.gz
kodi: /usr/share/doc/kodi/copyright
kodi: /usr/share/lintian/overrides/kodi
kodi: /usr/share/man/man1/kodi-standalone.1.gz
kodi: /usr/share/man/man1/kodi.1.gz
kodi: /usr/share/metainfo/org.xbmc.kodi.metainfo.xml

odroid@N2:~$ kodi
-bash: kodi: command not found
odroid@N2:~$

umm something strange here that says its in /usr/bin/kodi

yet

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odroid@N2:/usr/bin$ ls -la |grep kodi
odroid@N2:/usr/bin$

one says its there and ls says its not

I wish linux mint was available for arm64

I sure ubuntu in some language means crap

joerg · Post by **joerg** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 4:11 am

Sorry, I forgot to explain that apt-file lists the files of the package and where they will be installed. It does not list the actual installed files.

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 4:28 am

Thats OK, but it means why on earth is the excutable file not being installed in /usr/bin

I'm using the kodi ppa so it should be debian proof,

I wish Hardkernel could produce a SBC with a amd64 chip, so proper OS could be used like Linux Mint.
The last time I tied to use this I ended up buying a Netflix subscription
I'd prefer to get this to work with kodi

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:08 am

I tried reinstalling, and nothing gets installed to /usr/bin

however

I did a chmod +xrw /usr as su
and the permissions did not change

/usr/bin is writable as root as I was able to copy a file from /usr/local/bin to it

I cant see any reason why the kodi excutable is not getting written to /usr/bin
apart from ubuntu being the biggest pile of crap !!!!

I've tried the three versions available
the stock ubuntu version
the xmbc stable version from ppa and the nightly build from ppa,
none of them install the binary in to /usr/bin

mad_ady · Post by **mad_ady** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 4:59 pm

I haven't used kodi on ubuntu for a while, but I remember Hardkernel would ship a custom kodi package, from their own repo. I know that for N2 they ship kodi for fbdev only, so look if you have their apt repo set up and what kodi-* packages you have svailable.
There is also a project around the forum that runs coreelec's kodi inside a container, in ubuntu.

joerg · Post by **joerg** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 5:52 pm

May I know your installed OS image? I could give it a try with my N2. Is it the stock Ubuntu from Hardkernel?

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 6:46 pm

Hi Joerg

Its the standard ubuntu22 downloaded from the hardkernel site

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richard@richard-Inspiron-3580:~$ ssh -p 9922 odroid@odroidN2
Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.9.312-125 aarch64)

I'm very suspicious, as I tried the cinnamon desktop, only to find the Debian logos on it.
I use cinnamon on my laptop ,with Linux Mint, and that looks and feels very different.
I'm stuck with Mate as I need to use the 200% zoom as the resolution is set high with no alternatives.
I am using the TV as a monitor.
If yours works and the binary is loaded in /usr/bin. Could you possibly e-mail the executable file from /usr/bin/ so I can try it here please

thanks

joerg · Post by **joerg** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:39 pm

Hello Richard, I installed Ubuntu on my N2 and first made a sudo apt update and a sudo apt upgrade. Then I installed Kodi with sudo apt install kodi and... It's there! Also in the Menu - Sound & Video.
Here is the log output of it:

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odroid@odroid:~$ sudo apt install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  crda libllvm13 libssl1.1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fonts-noto-core fonts-noto-hinted fonts-noto-ui-core fonts-roboto-hinted
  fonts-roboto-unhinted javascript-common kodi-bin kodi-data
  kodi-repository-kodi kodi-visualization-spectrum libcec6 libcrossguid0
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odroid@odroid:~$ whereis kodi
kodi: /usr/bin/kodi /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/kodi /usr/share/kodi /usr/share/man/man1/kodi.1.gz

The file kodi.zip contains the deb package of installed kodi 19.4. I hope you can use it. Either install the deb package with right click on it or it's also possible to decompress the deb file to see the files in the file explorer.
Maybe the sources for apt in your case is not original anymore?

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:02 pm

Many thanks Joerg

I did a system update between ubuntu 20 and 22,

my apt sources are correct and up to date, even have the xmbc ppas added, stable and nightly

The emmc was purchased with ubuntu 20 on it, and I've had many problems, especially with licd.

I'll see if I can just get the binary file out of the deb, I'm not sure if the hardkernel version of kodi has the additional repos that the xmbc version does
If it has been copied from the debian version there is a lot missing.
.

If I cant get just the executable file out , I will have to reload the emmc with the latest version, the N2 main use is motion and homeassisant.
Motion is no problem to back up, but homeassistant will be a pig
Maybe if I make a tarball of the /src directory and the .homeassistant directory , I might be OK , , I post that question on the HA forum

thanks again for the help, it proves he OS is broken , I had to use dpkg to sort out the mess apt made when installing gnome

I suspect the problem is with apt , not sure if that can be purged and reinstalled with dpgk

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 1:25 am

Hi Joerg
Your deb installs exactly the same as you had , but when
whereis kodi
kodi: /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/kodi /usr/share/kodi /usr/share/man/man1/kodi.1.gz

can someone please either tar or zip the executable /usr/bin/kodi and attach to an email to me please, richard@g8jvm.com
I'm beginning to suspect APT is all screwed up, I'm not sure IF it can be reloaded ?????
strange dpkg could not install kodi, couldn't find it

I dont want to have to reload the system , as it also runs homeassitant and that controls all the heating etc, and its cold outside now

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 2:51 am

Well after much battling , I managed to reload apt, and kodi now loads,
running on top of Mate, its pretty useless, very very slow. anything from the keyboard takes 10 sec for a character to appear after being type and the mouse is just frustrating to try and use.

Ran TOP and it shows motion using 240% of the processor, and Has and kodi both using less than 10 %
I would have thought a A73 processor would have coped with that.
It so slow it makes my old C1 look super fast
Motion only has 9 HDMI cameras attached , a bit disappointed at the performance or lack of it

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:03 am

mpstat
Linux 4.9.312-125 (N2.g8jvm.com) 11/20/23 _aarch64_ (6 CPU)

18:02:32 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %gnice %idle
18:02:32 all 41.47 0.06 0.76 0.08 0.00 0.18 0.00 0.00 0.00 57.46

rooted · Post by **rooted** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:04 am

Personally I would just run coreelec and run HA in a container.

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:08 am

Probably easier just to get another board and just use that for kodi and other media stuff
maybe a N2L , and if so Ill use coreelec

rooted · Post by **rooted** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:31 am

The C4 runs CoreELEC nicely as well.

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:43 am

Just had a look on flea bay , there are some very silly prices,

there is a N2 with emmc , used, at a reasonable price, I may just grab that only the 2GB of ram , would that be enough for running kodi ?

rooted · Post by **rooted** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:14 am

Shouldn't have any issues with 2GB running CorrELEC.

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:24 am

Thanks, I just bought it
so I'll have to read up on coreelec before it gets here

rooted · Post by **rooted** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:38 am

richard-g8jvm wrote:Thanks, I just bought it
so I'll have to read up on coreelec before it gets here

It's just Kodi running on top of minimal Linux, it's really good.

mad_ady · Post by **mad_ady** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 2:15 pm

As far as I remember kodi never ran on N2 on top of x11. Hardkernel's (and coreelec's) build was for fbdev. So turn off lightdm (sudo service lightdm stop) and try running kodi from shell. You shouldn't need any xbmc ppas. If it still runs poorly, it's probably kodi installed from a different repo than hardkernel's.

Maybe if I make a tarball of the /src directory and the .homeassistant directory , I might be OK , , I post that question on the HA forum

See if you have Settings -> System -> Backups. I'm running HA supervised, but in an unsupported way

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:14 pm

I've another N2 coming which will run corelec, which should solve the problem.
TOP doesn't give a true indication of cpu use with multiple cpus. Motion is taking at least half the cpu resources
The N2+ will say in use with Motion, HA and as a NAS, with just motion and HA running thats using 40% of the 6 cpus according to mpstat

joerg · Post by **joerg** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:46 pm

mad_ady wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 21, 2023 2:15 pm
As far as I remember kodi never ran on N2 on top of x11. Hardkernel's (and coreelec's) build was for fbdev. So turn off lightdm (sudo service lightdm stop) and try running kodi from shell. You shouldn't need any xbmc ppas. If it still runs poorly, it's probably kodi installed from a different repo than hardkernel's.

Maybe if I make a tarball of the /src directory and the .homeassistant directory , I might be OK , , I post that question on the HA forum
See if you have Settings -> System -> Backups. I'm running HA supervised, but in an unsupported way

I think the one I uploaded here was not from Hardkernel's repo:

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Get:28 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports jammy/universe arm64 kodi arm64 2:19.4+dfsg1-2 [23.4 kB]

But apt-cache shows me only this version.
I wasn't aware of it, as I never use Kodi. It's still not the kind of UI I like to use.

richard-g8jvm · Post by **richard-g8jvm** » Tue Nov 21, 2023 6:57 pm

Its only useful for watching TV series that take years to appear on TV here, or the stuff that you need several subscriptions to use
, and even then you dont get all episodes. Not worried about films , its just choice

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