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I just had Kodi 19 update on my mobile phone and it broke all of my add-ons, is there a way I could edit a conf file for sudo eopkg up to exclude kodi from future updates(since it might take awhile until these add-ons start working on this version) It seems natural that I could do sudo eopkg up --exclude kodi but it would be great if I could edit it in a conf file till the inevitable future!

    laky
    No. An its not feasible to hold back manually for an indefinite period of time either. The last two Kodi updates Solus made were rebuilds against updated dependencies.

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        Harvey Meaning the involved dependencies that might get updated would break the old kodi version? Well that is a shame , but thanks for clearing it up.

            laky

            Yeah, it is why partial updates are not supported. They are the number one cause of breakages. An I promise you something will break eventually and in a way more spectacular fashion than some Kodi addons not working.

            EDIT:
            I know flatpak's did not used to update themselves automatically a few years ago. If that is still the case or there is a way to stop flatpak updating its containers. That might be a working alternative.

                Harvey That seems very true indeed I had few of those spectacular "breaks" over my period of using linux system, most of them you can actually revert and save yourself the future troubles if you are lucky and stubborn enough to do so. 🙂 But I get your point !

                On further notice I did install an app : librewolf via flatpak just the other day and right now I am seeing there was a new version out 2 days ago but my flatpak update doesn't seem to find it?!(maybe I need to download .flatpak file again.. ) Might actually be a good thing regarding the kodi situation I will be in this friday. I'll take a look at it might be my only option since I never learned how to use containers.
                Edit:
                Flathubs repository kodi is on 18.8-Leia , crazy enough this might work much better than kodi 19. Considered this problem as solved.

                    Solarmass it is good, all my add-ons work as they should. It is just a matter of time to get used to it now, inb I find a better way to make this to work! 😄

                        laky it is good, all my add-ons work as they should.

                        Nice! But you should be careful not to update to the Kodi 19 flatpak when it will be available in the repo 😉

                          Solarmass Damn, that was fast, I don't understand why did they decide to skip 18.9 completely and just go from 18.8 to 19, nonetheless It still requires me to manually update so I'll be safe as long as I press /n at every popup . Thanks for heads up , appreciate it. 😃
                          EDIT:
                          Also I've just realize the new librewolf 86.0-1 is not going to work for Solus since it requires newer glibc version , so staying on older one for now.

                            My current thinking is that if the flathub version of Kodi 19 works well enough, I'm inclined to stop supporting the native build (currently on 18.9).

                            The way upstream expects packagers to deal with binary add-ons is just too much of a hassle/burden for me to enjoy the experience.

                              8 days later

                              ermo Whatever your final decision end up being, i just want to thank you for all the Kodi updates so far, really appreciate the time and effort you have put into it.

                              Started testing the flatpak version, had issues with the version released on the 5/3, as i could not get samba to work, but that seem to be fixed with last nights build. From my short time testing, it will do just fine for me as well.

                              Thanks again Ermo! Look forward to the next samba update, that you have prepaired and packaged for us.

                                  Katoa Whatever your final decision end up being, i just want to thank you for all the Kodi updates so far, really appreciate the time and effort you have put into it.

                                  Yep!

                                  I need to test how to copy my library + favorites to the Flatpak version.

                                      Solarmass In Kodi under Settings > Media > Library > "Video Library" there is a "Export Library" function, i selected to "Single File". It need to be exported to your Home folder, in the Music, Pictures or Video folder, because the Kodi flatpak version only have access, to import from these home folders.

                                      Your settings for Kodi is located in your home folder:.kodi/userdata
                                      The Flatpak versions settings is located here: .var/app/tv.kodi.Kodi/data/userdata

                                          Katoa I successfully imported Video Library! Thanks!
                                          Okay, YouTube addon works, but Reddit addon doesn't work (looks like it is not compatable with v19)
                                          External Player (mpv) doesn't work because of the flatpak permissions I guess.

                                            7 months later

                                            Kodi has now been deprecated from the unstable repository and will be deprecated from stable this Friday. I want to thank @ermo for all the effort he put into packaging and maintaining kodi.

                                              6 days later

                                              Those who want to still use Kodi, need to enable flatpak. Install it via this link https://flatpak.org/setup/Solus/
                                              then go to https://flathub.org/apps/details/tv.kodi.Kodi

                                              The tricky part comes now for those that wants to still use "Leia Build"

                                              First you must install the latest version of kodi via flathub.
                                              The next step is to revert kodi to older version.In order to do this, you have to first check for the commit history. the following way " flatpak remote-info --log flathub tv.kodi.Kodi "

                                              Then search for the commit of the last Lea Update . In this case "75a8cbf685c9d1c1b35e30853f45a7590bc8882404bb44888efb5bc21f51aabc"

                                              The last step is to downgrade kodi with the lea commit . by doing this
                                              flatpak update --commit=75a8cbf685c9d1c1b35e30853f45a7590bc8882404bb44888efb5bc21f51aabc tv.kodi.Kodi

                                              If you need PVR for live tv "libplatform" package must be installed. Magically it works well even with flatpak version of kodi too.

                                              JoshStrobl Pls do not delete "libplatform" package from the software manager in the future. It is essential for kodi 18.8/18.9 (flatpak version).

                                              It is essential for PVR client (to be able to watch live tv)