Install & Update Kodi 16.0 beta 3 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint Derivative System [PPA]

Kodi 16.0 beta 3 is released, you can upgrade and install on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems

Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.

Features at a glance

Key features include powerful media management capabilities, a fluid Interface, plug-ins that allow for great extensibility, cinematic effects and visualizations, built-in multimedia codecs, themes, and much more. The application can play your entire collection of music files, supporting all the popular formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA or OGG. It also provides support for cue sheets, audio tagging and smart playlists.

Your entire video collection can also be played by Kodi, supporting all the major video formats like AVI, MP4, DivX, XviD, DVD Video, MKV, and many more. In addition, it includes support for Internet streams. The program provides support for organizing and viewing your favorite TV shows, which will be sorted by episodes and seasons. Moreover, Kodi can be used to display an entire collection of digital photos.

Fixes done in this beta 3:
• Fixed: non-working touch input in file manager
• Fixed: workaround for MySQL 5.7.x query optimizer changes
• Fixed: remove broken musicvideo scraper
• Fixed: don’t show “sync playback to display” option on Android as it’s not supported
• Fixed: fix codepage for Korean language input
• Fixed: added workaround for triggering repository updates during playback
• Fixed: fix crash in PVR calling the context menu
• Fixed: show OK dialog instead of empty list clicking on the update button in add-on information panel
• Fixed: several coverity and cppcheck code analysis problems
• Fixed: time sometimes jumped backwards on playing bluray m2ts files and fixes stutter on switching files
• Fixed: several issues regarding music library
• Fixed: timer and EPG handling in PVR
• Fixed: crashing on cleaning up events
• Fixed: don’t show brightness/contrast controls when using Android MediaCodec (Surface)
• Fixed: dont invalidate art for addons that are new or not updated since last fetch
• Fixed: Android stylus devices don’t respond on input
• Fixed: segfault when ADSP is enabled in settings
• Fixed: missing art when playing something from a music add-on
• Fixed: variety of cleanups and problems for AMLogic chips
• Fixed: fixed possible directory traversal bug due to insufficient url checking
• Fixed: handling of media key on Android
• Changed: add support for pre-gzipped addons.xml in repositories which should considerably reduce repository traffic
• Changed: remove “add source”from Programs section

How to Install & Update Kodi 16.0 beta 3 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint Derivative System [PPA]

To install/update Kodi 16.0 beta 3 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install kodi

Note that if you have any addons (such as PVR clients), these must be updated as well (they will not be updated automatically):

sudo apt-get install kodi-pvr-mythtv

Upgrading

To update Kodi when a new version is released, just do a general system/package or use the following commands in the terminal (or via SSH):

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

Note: In some cases where additional packages are required, Kodi will fail to upgrade when using the upgrade commands as above. To install additional packages use the command below:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade