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scr44tch

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Registered: 2016-06-16

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upgrade to kodi 17 beta

Hi

im running kodi 16.1 and want to upgrade to kodi 17 beta
but i dont know how to do that there are no packages for kodi 17 which i could find.

pls help a noob

positronik

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Registered: 2016-02-08

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Re: upgrade to kodi 17 beta

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ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: upgrade to kodi 17 beta

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kodi-devel/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository

Last edited by ewaller (2016-09-06 15:06:49)

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Xanomead

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Registered: 2015-05-31

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Re: upgrade to kodi 17 beta

Would be interested to know how you find it in comparison to the current stable. I saw that a beta had recently been released, but I've had too many issues with AUR packages, so I'm just going to wait.

ewaller

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Re: upgrade to kodi 17 beta

Dunno, I use Plex.

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Taijian

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Registered: 2016-04-10

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Re: upgrade to kodi 17 beta

Would be interested to know how you find it in comparison to the current stable. I saw that a beta had recently been released, but I've had too many issues with AUR packages, so I'm just going to wait.

I have the developer snapshot running on my pi, and I like it much better than the old version

Xanomead

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Registered: 2015-05-31

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Re: upgrade to kodi 17 beta

I have the developer snapshot running on my pi, and I like it much better than the old version

What exactly do you like about it compared to the previous version?

There isn't much that I could see being improved over the previous version, though as I had just done a fresh install of Arch, I noticed it took a long time for kodi to scan my library, and while it was doing that the performance was miserable, it could take 10 seconds or more to respond. Other than that I could only imagine the new default skin might have look nice, and hopefully be more customisable than the previous one.

positronik

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Registered: 2016-02-08

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Re: upgrade to kodi 17 beta

Would be interested to know how you find it in comparison to the current stable. I saw that a beta had recently been released, but I've had too many issues with AUR packages, so I'm just going to wait.

Many of the addon packages in aur for kodi-devel are broken because nobody maintains them anymore.
Therefore they require a bit of tinkering to make them work.
However, if you use only plain kodi w/o any iptvsimple and the like, you can just install it without worries.
For what I noticed they changed the default skin and also the video player.