How to install Kodi 14.10 RC3 on Ubuntu 14.04/12.04/14.0

How to install Kodi 14.10 RC3 on Ubuntu 14.04/12.04/14.0

Kodi is a popular media center and cinema software, formerly known as XBMC, which has been translated into over 30 languages. Third-party plug-ins and extensions are highly scalable and support PVR (personal video recorder ).

Since XBMC 14, XBMC open source software has been renamed as Kodi entertainment center. Kodi 14 is the first release.

Kodi 14 "Helix" RC3 has recently been released and has the following changes:

• Bump FFmpeg to 2.4.4
• Fix problem with setting content on new and existing video sources
• Fix spinner in video settings for choosing hardware or software decoding
• Fix recording history in PVR
• Separate sort order in PVR window for each directory
• Fix PVR preview video scaling for AMLCodec on Android
• Fix crashes on certain Intel GPU when playing video
• Fix LPCM (audio/L16) streaming via UPnP
• Use correct art type when appending art to item lists
• Fix python PIL package on Windows that caused crash on weather add-on
• Updated GUI translation files

Installation, available with PPA, supports Ubuntu 14.10, 14.04, 12.04, deepin 2014, Elementary OS 0.2, linuxmint 17 and other systems and derivative versions. Open the terminal and enter the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

Run the following command to uninstall kodi:

sudo apt-get remove kodi