Install KODI 17.1 Krypton On Ubuntu 16.04 / LinuxMint

Kodi formerly know as XBMC an open source and an award winning media player available for Linux operating systems and also available for other operating systems Windows , OS X.

In this Tutorial i will show you how to install the Latest Version of KODI 17.1 Krypton on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS/ and newer versions, and LinuxMint

This version 17.1 is an update of 17.0 "Krypton" and comes with fix of most bugs

This allows you to play all popular audio & video formats like MP3,MP4,FLAC, WAV,WMA,OGG, AVI, MKV,MPEG-2,DIVX,XVID and etc..

It will run on Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and iOS operating systems, supporting both 64-bit and 32-bit

This also provides support for Viewing our favorite TV shows and Digital Photos too.

Changelog:

• Update Estuary and Estouchy with some bugfixes and improvements
• Fix EDL skipping
• Fix slow song smartplaylist
• Several PVR fixes
• Update Chorus webinterface
• Fix addons not being marked broken when they are updated with broken flag
• Add limiter on random songs which should prevent large memory usage on big libraries
• Improve keyboard mapping during button mapping
• Improve analog stick handling
• Improve plugin performance when building the content list
• Include RTMP inputstream add-on for Windows
• Don’t close subtitle stream when switching audio
• Fix replaygain for music files
• Fix controllers buttons on Android
• Fix music cleanup hanging on large MySQL music database
• Fix use of SMB on Android on new installs
• Fix possible Kodi upgrade migration hang during add-on update process
• Add check in Windows installer for Service Packs and updates that Kodi needs to operate
• Don’t try to read tags from internet audio streams
• Add setting to disable controller rumble on notifications

Installation Steps

Kodi 17.1 Krypton available in its official PPA for Ubuntu / LinuxMint

Step 1 : Install the dependencies

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties pkg-config software-properties-common

Step 2: Add the Official PPA

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

Step 3:update the Repository

sudo apt-get update

Step 4: Install Kodi 17.1 Krypton

sudo apt-get install kodi