How to install kodi V17.6 on Ubuntu 18.04

How to install Kodi V17.6 on Ubuntu 18.04

Kodi is a free and open-source media player application that allows users to play and view streaming media such as videos, music, podcasts, and videos from the internet as well as local and network storage media. It is highly customizable with a variety of skins to change its appearance and various plug-ins to allow users to access streaming media content. In this tutorial, we cover the installation of Kodi on ubuntu 18.04

Installation

First, we have to update our system repository using the apt-get command

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease [242 kB]
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Fetched 242 kB in 1s (168 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

And then make use of the following command to install Kodi

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  fonts-noto-hinted fonts-roboto-hinted i965-va-driver kodi-bin kodi-data
  kodi-repository-kodi kodi-visualization-spectrum libaacs0 libass9 libavcodec57
  libavfilter6 libavformat57 libavresample3 libavutil55 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libbs2b0
  libcec4 libchromaprint1 libcrossguid0 libcrystalhd3 libflite1 libgif7 libgme0 libgsm1
  libjs-iscroll libmicrohttpd12 libmodplug1 libmysofa0 libmysqlclient20 libnfs11 libnorm1
.
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Setting up kodi-bin:amd64 (2:17.6+dfsg1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up kodi (2:17.6+dfsg1-1ubuntu1) ...
kodi.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...

After installing the application you can verify the version of kodi media player using the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# kodi -v
17.6 Debian package version: 2:17.6+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 Media Center Kodi from Debian
Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Team Kodi from Debian - http://kodi.tv
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3

you can access the application by searching from the ubuntu dashboard

with this, the method to install kodi V17.6 on Ubuntu18.04 comes to an end.