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    Kodi on Ubuntu 20.04 - Package kodi-inputstream-rtmp is not available

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    • R
      RetroNewbie
      last edited by

      I'm new to the forum, I'd consider my self a bit of a techie however I'm relatively new (1 month) to emulators and certainly very new Retropie, RetroArch, EmulationStation and Kodi.

      I'm running on a PC (chose Retropie for ease of setup & maintenance after manually hacking together Mame, Nes, Snes with HyperSpin for a couple of weeks) and decided to go with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

      I have RetroPie 4.6 running great with several emulators, but I'm struggling to install Kodi (also ScummVM but that can wait for another day).

      The only install option I have is for Kodi from the ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh tool is to install from Binary in the optional packages. There is no option to install from source.

      I've updated all apt packages and added http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease.

      I've updated the setup script and updated all core packages, but it still keeps saying it couldn't install.

      Here are the details in the log:

      = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Installing dependencies for 'kodi' : Kodi - Open source home theatre software
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:3 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Reading package lists...

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Installing 'kodi' : Kodi - Open source home theatre software
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Hit:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:4 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Hit:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package kodi-inputstream-rtmp is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'kodi-inputstream-rtmp' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package kodi-vfs-libarchive
E: Unable to locate package kodi-vfs-nfs
Unable to install binary for kodi

      As far as I can tell, this probably means either the binaries aren't prepared yet for Ubuntu 20.04, or I haven't added the correct repositories to allow it.

      Could someone point me in the right direction please as it would be nice to get this running through RetroPie/EmulationStation.

      I haven't attempted to install Kodi directly into Ubuntu as I didn't want to confuse things but I guess thats an option, I just don't know how I'd then integrate it with RetroPie.

      Thanks

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      • undfinedU
        undfined @RetroNewbie
        last edited by

        @RetroNewbie said in Kodi on Ubuntu 20.04 - Package kodi-inputstream-rtmp is not available:

        I haven't attempted to install Kodi directly into Ubuntu as I didn't want to confuse things but I guess thats an option, I just don't know how I'd then integrate it with RetroPie.

        Thanks

        This was supposed to work but I couldn't get Kodi to show up on the menu:
        https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/11425/tutorial-how-to-install-kodi-and-add-to-main-menu

        Here's the full log from the failed Kodi install:

        Log started at: Mon 11 May 2020 01:21:37 PM MST

        RetroPie-Setup version: 4.6 (7213258)
        System: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Dugong 5.4.0-29-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 29 14:32:27 UTC 2020 x86_6>

        = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
        Installing dependencies for 'kodi' : Kodi - Open source home theatre software
        = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

        Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
        Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease [17.5 kB]
        Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [107 kB]
        Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [107 kB]
        Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [98.3 kB]
        Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [16.6 kB]
        Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages [1,716 B]
        Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [208 B]
        Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [27.3 kB]
        Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [4,640 B]
        Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [532 B]
        Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages [14.5 kB]
        Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal/main Translation-en [4,084 B]
        Fetched 399 kB in 2s (219 kB/s)
        Reading package lists...

        = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
        Installing 'kodi' : Kodi - Open source home theatre software
        = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

        Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
        Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
        Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
        Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
        Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
        Reading package lists...
        Reading package lists...
        Building dependency tree...
        Reading state information...
        Package kodi-inputstream-rtmp is not available, but is referred to by another package.
        This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
        is only available from another source

        E: Package 'kodi-inputstream-rtmp' has no installation candidate
        E: Unable to locate package kodi-vfs-libarchive
        E: Unable to locate package kodi-vfs-nfs
        Unable to install binary for kodi

        Log ended at: Mon 11 May 2020 01:21:54 PM MST
        Total running time: 0 hours, 0 mins, 17 secs

        Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal/main i386 Packages [1,716 B]
        Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [208 B]
        Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [27.3 kB]
        Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [4,640 B]
        Get:11 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [532 B]
        Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages [14.5 kB]
        Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal/main Translation-en [4,084 B]
        Fetched 399 kB in 2s (219 kB/s)
        Reading package lists...

        = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
        Installing 'kodi' : Kodi - Open source home theatre software
        = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

        Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
        Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
        Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
        Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
        Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
        Reading package lists...
        Reading package lists...
        Building dependency tree...
        Reading state information...
        Package kodi-inputstream-rtmp is not available, but is referred to by another package.
        This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
        is only available from another source

        E: Package 'kodi-inputstream-rtmp' has no installation candidate
        E: Unable to locate package kodi-vfs-libarchive
        E: Unable to locate package kodi-vfs-nfs
        Unable to install binary for kodi

        Log ended at: Mon 11 May 2020 01:21:54 PM MST
        Total running time: 0 hours, 0 mins, 17 secs

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        • R
          RetroNewbie
          last edited by

          I guess I probably just need to wait for Kodi packages to be updated to support 20.04.

          The only reason I wanted Kodi was for playing some fitness videos.

          Last night I tried setting up a new entry in EmulationStation with VLC as the run command and pointed to the video directory and managed to get it working well within Emulation Station. I was surprised it natively pulled through directories to browse through and I could pass key mappings through as arguments (I have dedicated exit, play/pause buttons on my arcade unit) so I've actually ended up with a better, lighter weight solution!

          I'm no longer concerned about getting Kodi working, but if anyone has any suggestions or wants me to test any solutions let me know incase it helps others.

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          • L
            LiquidMercury
            last edited by LiquidMercury

            I’m not at home at the moment so i cannot provide logs i will try and grab them as soon as i return, i recently installed 20.04 on pc and i am getting the unable to install from binary error when it comes to installing kodi from within retropoe is there a way to fix this error that i’m just missing? Pretty sure i’ve updated my packages

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            • BuZzB
              BuZz administrators @LiquidMercury
              last edited by

              @liquidmercury Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

              Please start a new topic providing details of set-up

              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              • BuZzB
                BuZz administrators
                last edited by

                Just to note I have just improved the Kodi module as it failed on Ubuntu 20.10 - it should help with other Ubuntu versions (Basically it checks which kodi packages are available due to packaging differences between PPAs/versions)

                To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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