HELP!! Kodi 17 crashes when using addons in Linux Mint 18.1

[hhg123]

Update from 20-March 2017; question at end.
Kodi 17.1 with Mint 18.1 (up to date) and
Working but:

1. Very sensitive to clicking through menu to quickly; it will close or otherwise lockup PC.
2. Takes significantly longer to start a TV stream, once source is clicked on.
3. Buffering is a much bigger issue than it use to be before increasing RAM limits for buffer; it is same network & same download speed [6Mbps download min.]; issues were about 10-20% of the time, now 80-99% of time.
4. Added <advancedsettings.xml> File to increase buffer zone, to relieve buffering issue; which is pretty bad [no movies for me!].
Added this per: http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO%3AModify_the_video_cache
But after adding file under: usr/share/kodi/userdata, neither Kodi 17.1 or Mint 18.1 Cinnamon, are seeing the file. I did a restart of both Kodi & Mint, several times.

I am looking for file in Mint terminal using ‘locate’ command, >locate userdata and all files under userdata show up except: advancedsettings.xml.
advancedsettings.xml had [as far as i know] to be added by or via a root entry, i suspect because file: usr, is under: File System; otherwise i got error issues/permission denied. These error issues appeared to be due to some lack of sharing capability and/or permission issue; never was asked for a pw till going into root mode(?) to add the file. I was not otherwise able to overcome the sharing/permission issue.

Does anybody have any ideas of why Mint 18.1 is not seeing the added file: advancedsettings.xml?

[hhg123]

One more thing, since the issues with Kodi 17/17.1 started.
When clicking Kodi EXIT, it now takes a long time to close back to Mint (or it locks up).
After first update from Kodi 16 to 17, the Exit function worked fine; so this too changed over the pass 3-4 weeks.

[Penn]

It appears that advancedsettings.xml file is supposed to go in the hidden kodi folder your home. Open your file manager and choose to show hidden files (most DEs I've tried it is just Ctrl+H) and you will see a folder called ".kodi" and the dot at the beginning of the name is what makes it hidden.

I had the slow close or lockup issue with Kodi 14 and 15 but it works fine in 16 for me. I have no idea why it happens.

[peter_szekeres]

These steps should work, but they don't since there is still a missing package that will not allow kodi to be installed. I had to manually download and install 'libcrossguid1' from here to work: "http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ ... _amd64.deb". But anyway this 16.1 version is also crashing and showing same symptoms as 17.1. I have no idea what is up with this or what Linux Mint changed but it completely broke this application for me.

It isn't a matter of what Mint did. For one thing, the issues exist with the Ubuntu base but even that isn't a matter of Ubuntu doing or not doing something. In fact, that is the first time I can recall anyone having issues with 16.1 in Mint so that seems unique to you.

Part of the packaging for a deb file is to include dependency or recommends information. This doesn't only include what packages are needed but the minimum version number. Kodi failed to do that as can be evidence by your next post about the solution. Furthermore, if the PPA and deb were written correct crossguid would install automatically instead of needing to get it manually.

By the way, that link you gave is for Xenial 64 bit which means if someone needs the 32 bit that won't get it done. This isn't meant to demean you but to point out how easy it is to not manage to accommodate the needs of every system.

Kodi is very useful when it works but going all the way back to when it was XBMC on the X-Box it was designed for it has been buggy. For a lot of people that "when it works" is never. Contrary to what the Kodi fanboy in the link where you found the solution says, Kodi developers are sloppy.

You are quite right, unfortunately ubuntu is now 64-bit only so they don't provide 32-bit packages to solve this issue on a 32-bit Linux Mint, so as you sad this will only work on 64-bit. Let's hope that it will be backported as a security update, but who knows when will that come if it comes at all. :S

[lissa]

Problem crash kodi 17.1 Krypton in Mint 18 or MInt 18.1 resolved:

The problem is not for kodi version but for old version of phyton component
- python-cryptography
- python-openssl

Solution:
Remove before python-cryptography from synaptic

From terminal session Download the individual packages:

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wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/.../python-cryptography_1.7...
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/.../​​python-openssl_16.2.0...

Install the packages using dpkg:

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sudo dpkg -i python-cryptography_1.7.1-2_amd64.deb

*​ if see error:

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sudo apt-get install -f

after

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sudo dpkg -i python-openssl_16.2.0-1_all.deb

*​ if see error:

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sudo apt-get install -f

For 32 bit version of mint look for matching packets this is for 64bit version

run kodi and testing
See: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=304613&page=2
Roberto Lissandrin from italy

[Penn]

These steps should work, but they don't since there is still a missing package that will not allow kodi to be installed. I had to manually download and install 'libcrossguid1' from here to work: "http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ ... _amd64.deb". But anyway this 16.1 version is also crashing and showing same symptoms as 17.1. I have no idea what is up with this or what Linux Mint changed but it completely broke this application for me.

It isn't a matter of what Mint did. For one thing, the issues exist with the Ubuntu base but even that isn't a matter of Ubuntu doing or not doing something. In fact, that is the first time I can recall anyone having issues with 16.1 in Mint so that seems unique to you.

Part of the packaging for a deb file is to include dependency or recommends information. This doesn't only include what packages are needed but the minimum version number. Kodi failed to do that as can be evidence by your next post about the solution. Furthermore, if the PPA and deb were written correct crossguid would install automatically instead of needing to get it manually.

By the way, that link you gave is for Xenial 64 bit which means if someone needs the 32 bit that won't get it done. This isn't meant to demean you but to point out how easy it is to not manage to accommodate the needs of every system.

Kodi is very useful when it works but going all the way back to when it was XBMC on the X-Box it was designed for it has been buggy. For a lot of people that "when it works" is never. Contrary to what the Kodi fanboy in the link where you found the solution says, Kodi developers are sloppy.

You are quite right, unfortunately ubuntu is now 64-bit only so they don't provide 32-bit packages to solve this issue on a 32-bit Linux Mint, so as you sad this will only work on 64-bit. Let's hope that it will be backported as a security update, but who knows when will that come if it comes at all. :S

Ubuntu is not only 64 bit for the Mint base of 16.04 which is the most recent long term support version. The file you are referencing is available in 32 bit http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ ... l_i386.deb

Yeah, mistakes are easily made when dealing with anything computer related.

[wutsinterweb]

wget fails to get those. mint 18.1 kde. Having same issue.

[wutsinterweb]

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ark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo apt-get remove kodi
[sudo] password for mark: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  kodi-bin libcec4 libcrossguid1 libmicrohttpd10 libnfs8 libp8-platform2
  libpcrecpp0v5 libshairplay0 libtinyxml2.6.2v5 python-bluez
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kodi
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
After this operation, 37.1 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 301900 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kodi (2:17.1~git20170320.2031-final-0xenial) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.47ubuntu1) ...
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:team-xbmc/kodi-old
You are about to add the following PPA:
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ubuntu/kodi-old
Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel

Executing: /tmp/tmp.19KCasS4lm/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
91E7EE5E
gpg: requesting key 91E7EE5E from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 91E7EE5E: "Launchpad PPA for XBMC for Linux" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Ign:2 http://mirrors.evowise.com/linuxmint/packages serena InRelease        
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/kodi-old/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Hit:4 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                  
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                     
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease             
Hit:7 http://mirrors.evowise.com/linuxmint/packages serena Release          
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease           
Get:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/kodi-old/ubuntu xenial/main Sources [10.9 kB]
Get:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/kodi-old/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [14.1 kB]
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/kodi-old/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [14.1 kB]
Get:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/kodi-old/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [4,240 B]
Ign:15 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease                
Hit:16 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable Release
Ign:17 https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/xUbuntu_16.04 ./ InRelease
Get:19 https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/xUbuntu_16.04 ./ Release [988 B]
Fetched 61.9 kB in 1s (35.8 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
20 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo apt install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 kodi : Depends: kodi-bin (< 2:16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial.1~) but 2:17.1~git20170320.2031-final-0xenial is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:team-xbmc/kodi-old
You are about to add the following PPA:
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ubuntu/kodi-old
Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel

Executing: /tmp/tmp.w0yXJPJcZl/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
91E7EE5E
gpg: requesting key 91E7EE5E from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 91E7EE5E: "Launchpad PPA for XBMC for Linux" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Ign:2 http://mirrors.evowise.com/linuxmint/packages serena InRelease        
Ign:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease                 
Hit:4 http://mirrors.evowise.com/linuxmint/packages serena Release          
Hit:5 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable Release                   
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/kodi-old/ubuntu xenial InRelease   
Hit:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                     
Hit:9 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease               
Hit:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Ign:14 https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/xUbuntu_16.04 ./ InRelease
Get:15 https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/xUbuntu_16.04 ./ Release [988 B]
Fetched 205 kB in 1s (132 kB/s) 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
20 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo apt install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 kodi : Depends: kodi-bin (< 2:16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial.1~) but 2:17.1~git20170320.2031-final-0xenial is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sodo apt-get remove kodi
No command 'sodo' found, did you mean:
 Command 'todo' from package 'devtodo' (universe)
 Command 'solo' from package 'sgt-puzzles' (universe)
 Command 'sudo' from package 'sudo-ldap' (universe)
 Command 'sudo' from package 'sudo' (main)
sodo: command not found
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo ppa-purge ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo: ppa-purge: command not found
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Del gstreamer1.0-x 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.1 [71.1 kB]
Del gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.1 [63.4 kB]
Del libc6-dev 2.23-0ubuntu5 [2,078 kB]
Del gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.3 [1,531 kB]
Del gstreamer1.0-alsa 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.1 [33.3 kB]
Del libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.3 [32.6 kB]
Del libcec4 4.0.1.1~xenial [201 kB]
Del thunderbird 1:45.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 [35.5 MB]
Del libc-dev-bin 2.23-0ubuntu5 [68.7 kB]
Del libcrossguid1 0.1~git20150807.8f399e8~xenial [6,130 B]
Del gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.1 [29.6 kB]
Del linux-libc-dev 4.4.0-67.88 [839 kB]
Del gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.1 [496 kB]
Del kodi-bin 2:17.1~git20170320.2031-final-0xenial [12.5 MB]
Del libp8-platform2 2.1.0.1~xenial [19.2 kB]
Del gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.3 [55.8 kB]
Del libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.1 [592 kB]
Del kodi 2:17.1~git20170320.2031-final-0xenial [20.6 MB]
Del libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 1.8.3-1ubuntu0.1 [612 kB]
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo ppa-purge ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo: ppa-purge: command not found
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:team-xbmc/kodi-old
You are about to add the following PPA:
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ubuntu/kodi-old
Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel

Executing: /tmp/tmp.HrRMaqpSKp/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
91E7EE5E
gpg: requesting key 91E7EE5E from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 91E7EE5E: "Launchpad PPA for XBMC for Linux" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo apt update
Ign:1 http://mirrors.evowise.com/linuxmint/packages serena InRelease
Ign:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease                 
Hit:3 http://mirrors.evowise.com/linuxmint/packages serena Release          
Hit:5 http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable Release                   
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/kodi-old/ubuntu xenial InRelease   
Hit:7 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                  
Hit:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                     
Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Ign:13 https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/xUbuntu_16.04 ./ InRelease
Get:14 https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/xUbuntu_16.04 ./ Release [988 B]
Get:16 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Fetched 307 kB in 5s (52.8 kB/s)                               
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
20 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~ $ sudo apt install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 kodi : Depends: kodi-bin (< 2:16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial.1~) but 2:17.1~git20170320.2031-final-0xenial is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 ~

[wutsinterweb]

I tried that sites instructions but it didn't work

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mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 /etc/apt $ sudo apt install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 kodi : Depends: kodi-bin (< 2:16.1~git20160425.1001-final-0xenial.1~) but 2:17.1~git20170320.2031-final-0xenial is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
mark@mark-Lenovo-G580 /etc/apt $ 

[greerd]

Looks like you have to get rid of kodi-bin. You can try sudo apt remove kodi-bin. If that doesn't work try it with synaptic and also try fix broken packages

[rajapatta]

Good day,
I am new to Mint forum. i have been using Mint for the last year and half. I had installed Kodi and it stopped working. Tried to uninstall and reinstall with the newer version. Now I do not see the Kodi Media Center menu under All Application or under Sound & Video. What am I doing Wrong.

Thanks

Raja

[rajapatta]

These were the codes I had used.
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

Thanks
Raja

[wutsinterweb]

Ok, I had problems doing wget and getting those files but somehow, despite them not showing to install right, they did at some point and I just had to remove the old python-cryptography and the kodi-bin. I am now working with the previous version of KODI and it works.

Once again, this forum is the best for help!.

[hhg123]

UPDATE:

A). Mint 18.1 is now seeing the file: advancesettings.xml ; however, Kodi 17.1 appears NOT to be acting on it. Does anyone know if the file name needs to start with a capital: A or lower case: a, or if it matters?

Buffering appears to stop when tv/movie stream in placed on HOLD; or at the very least only filling buffer to some low default limit.

Presently with 8GB of RAM, and I have Advancesettings.xml in:

File System/usr/share/kodi/userdata [note: file added as a root]
And
/.kodi/userdata [note .kodi/userdata is under hidden folders]

Settings: Advancesettings.xml are as follows for Kodi 17.1:

Advancedsettings.xml
<advancedsettings>
<cache>
<buffermode>1</buffermode>
<memorysize>512000000</memorysize>
<readfactor>10</readfactor>
</cache>
</advancedsettings>


B). After running from terminal:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install python-cryptography=1.7.1-2
(it will also upgrade python-openssl to latest version)

Kodi 17.1 is running much better, though some addons crash or close Kodi; and Kodi’s Exit crashes or locks up, more often than it closes correctly. However, finding and connecting to sources for tv stream is much-much better; and I can watch moves again; except when additional buffering is needed.

Hope this helps someone; and if anyone notices that I have something wrong please reply with correction. I really need for the buffer to work again for Kodi to be useful.

Thanks.

[paddy32]

I have found the solution in kodi forum! It work for me!


http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=304613&page=2

This actually seems to have solved the issue I had, will have to test a bit but so far it looks great. A little change to the solution, I had to use apt to install the packages because dpkg was reluctant to do so for me.

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/299484105 ... _amd64.deb
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/292839640 ... -1_all.deb

sudo apt install ~/python-cryptography_1.7.1-2_amd64.deb ~/python-openssl_16.2.0-1_all.deb

This worked for me! thanks

[a_menace]

Problem crash kodi 17.1 Krypton in Mint 18 or MInt 18.1 resolved:

The problem is not for kodi version but for old version of phyton component
- python-cryptography
- python-openssl

Solution:
Remove before python-cryptography from synaptic

From terminal session Download the individual packages:

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wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/.../..
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/.../​​python-openssl_16.2.0...

Install the packages using dpkg:

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sudo dpkg -i python-cryptography_1.7.1-2_amd64.deb

*​ if see error:

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sudo apt-get install -f

after

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sudo dpkg -i python-openssl_16.2.0-1_all.deb

*​ if see error:

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sudo apt-get install -f

For 32 bit version of mint look for matching packets this is for 64bit version

run kodi and testing
See: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=304613&page=2
Roberto Lissandrin from italy

Thank you!!! this WORKED!! for all those people going back to kodi 16 DONT! You will need kodi 17.1 to get all the streaming content. I don't have time to explain why but going back wasnt an option for me.. THIS WORKED!!!! now i wasn't able to install python-cryptography_1.7. or python-openssl_16.2.0 with the terminal so i hunted them down on Launchpad.net and installed them that way.. and PROBLEM SOLVED. and a HUGE THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheNoo]

Hello, I have been having all these same problems with Kodi recently on Linux Mint MATE 18. I have followed thru most instructions for a fix on this thread. I thought I had got there with it last week, watched a few films and tv shows, switched off. Next time log back on its back to crashing, freezing, not working. I did notice tho that uninstalling wasn't really uninstalling Kodi from my system as everytime I added it again it was just the same as before with same addons and problems. I had to hunt down Kodi in disk analyser file system and completely delete from there after initial uninstall. Just uninstalling was not getting Kodi out my system. Anyway, I download and install Kodi again thru the terminal, its fresh and brand new with no addons. The cursor is flying across the screen as it should, navigation is great. Then I add Exodus, Sportsdevil and a maintenance tool, and we are back to it crashing, freezing, won't close down. The problems are in the addons, must be. I have just downloaded and installed another fresh Kodi with nothing on it. We'll see how it goes from here. I don't hold much hope really...... Sorry for the way this is typed out, I'm not good at this sort of lay out thing.

[TheNoo]

I did all the stuff immediately above my post, rebooted and opened Kodi. Started to add Exodus, as soon as the repository was added It was freezing up again. I'm stuck on Exodus just before entering to install it. I fear its all a mess again with just trying to add 1 addon.

[TheNoo]

If you are new to Kodi or starting again with it all, this looks like a must, https://www.tvaddons.ag/kodi-addons-krypton/

[TheNoo]

I've been going round in circles with it recently. I really hope this starts to help. Kodi as such, fresh installed on its own seems great, until I start with the addons. Freezing and crashing. That link there looks to be what I have been looking for and asking for for weeks now.