RetroPie & KODI

Kangool19

Hi guys,

has for some time a Raspberry Pi 3 and for a long time no longer used. Today I wanted to update one or the other and now I have trouble.

Use RetroPie and have made an update. After that I wanted to start Kodi over RetroPie, unfortunately without success. I uninstalled Kodi and re-added via the package RetroPie.

Just when I start Kodi it opens a gray window and it looks as if he would try the launch. After a few seconds, I land again in the RetroPie menu.

What's wrong here? Do you have an idea?

I receive these message if i try to update Kodi via RetroPie:

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

darthlink

When i installed Kodi, all i did in a command prompt was: sudo apt-get install kodi

then i created a file with gedit and only put kodi in the file and i saved it as kodi.sh

Then i created a folders called kodi inside the roms folder inside RetroPie folder and moved the file kodi.sh into the folder kodi

Then in the file es_systems.cfg ( witch is in: /home/pi/.emulationstation ) i added kodi to it this way:

<system>
<fullname>kodi</fullname>
<name>kodi</name>
<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/kodi</path>
<extension>.sh .SH</extension>
<command>bash %ROM%</command>
<platform>kodi</platform>
<theme>kodi</theme>
</system>

Then reboot

So now i have kodi in the console list as all my other consoles and i can start it from there.

I hope this can help ;)

Rascas

@Kangool19 It was probably because we were uploading Kodi 17.3, sorry. Please try again now.

Kangool19

@Rascas hmmmm now it seems that i have installed Kodi and also could use an update but still the same problem.

After i restart the system and choose -> PORTS -> KODI the screen goes black and return to RetroPie..... What´s even wrong.

No Message like
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

darthlink

@Kangool19 said in RetroPie & KODI:

@Rascas hmmmm now it seems that i have installed Kodi and also could use an update but still the same problem.

After i restart the system and choose -> PORTS -> KODI the screen goes black and return to RetroPie..... What´s even wrong.

No Message like
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Try this way instead of ports

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

Kangool19

Here the message from the terminal..... still doesn´t work

pi@retropie:~ $ sudo apt-get install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
kodi is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.

AlexMurphy

@Kangool19 I updated KODI to 17.3 earlier without any problems. Tell me what you are actually doing and then maybe I can point out what you are doing wrong.

Kangool19

Ok just found a solution now it works.

Used this way:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install kodi

After that period no problems at all.

THX

AlexMurphy

@Kangool19 So, you are up to 17.3 now?

darthlink

@Kangool19 said in RetroPie & KODI:

Ok just found a solution now it works.

Used this way:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get install kodi

After that period no problems at all.

THX

good job ;) i am happy it finally works for you.