I did a fresh install of Mate 24.04.03 desktop and installed kodi-omega from the app center, apparently as a snap, and VLC as a snap. VLC works to play files from the external drive, although it was a bit clunky to navigate there, but it remembered the path so no real pain.
However Kodi can’t seem to find any files on my system or even see the USB drive. All the configuration of Kodi went fine, it was when I tried to “import library” that I discovered the problem.
How do I get the Kodi snap to see the external usb drive? I was mounted as /media/username/driveName and the desktop icon was there when I launched Kodi.
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FWIW - Kodi documentation says:
For now the only options are building from source, using Flatpak or a distro such as Debian which includes Kodi in their distribution.
The Debian package is at 20.2, so 'Nexus' (not Omega); but it works out of the box.
The Flatpak will also run on Ubuntu MATE: see Install Kodi on Linux | Flathub
You might want to try the Snap forum https://forum.snapcraft.io/ if you must use the Snap. Snaps have their own sandboxing rules; and it may not be trivial to fix what a snap can and can't access.
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Try the following:
snap connect kodi-omega:removable-media
Based on: permissions - How to get access to USB-storage from an application installed as Snap? - Ask Ubuntu
This should work given that the snap source indicates that the removable-media plug is supported: see kodi-omega-snap/snapcraft.yaml at 18a7c602a4d5a558cae6caec13a5e65ed9e620ef · Tibsun75/kodi-omega-snap · GitHub
I'd add, however, that the snap also looks like it doesn't use VAAPI; from that same source:
Known Issues: Vaapi ist not working
So if you have an AMD or Intel GPU (or APU) it likely won't have access to its decoding feature.
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Thanks, after searching gave no clear answers, I uninstalled the snap kodi version with the app center and then install the kodi deb from the app center. It’s all working well now and I succeeded in importing my library.
I like the idea behind snaps and up to now I've never really cared if it was snap or deb and if snap versions of my most important apps can delay my need for full system updates I’d be a believer. I don’t really know how many snaps I use as if it works I don’t care one bit about snap vs. deb. But of all the “containers”, I’ve had the best luck with appimage, especially kdenlive and balena etcher
I’ve had lots of issues with VLC on 22.04 and 20.04 to the point I don’t even have it installed on my main 22.04 workstation. But the VLC snap on 24.04 has so far worked without a hitch, doing the same things that used to give me fits.
My main desktop workstation history is Ubuntu 6.06, Ubuntu-Mate 10.04, Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 and currently 22.04. I’ve tried a few “rolling releases” versions (Manjaro, Susie) on secondary laptop systems with the conclusion that they are more trouble than they are worth. YMMV. My next scheduled update will be 26.06, but I will be trying 24.04 on a secondary laptop after I saw Gimp3 and the OpenVINO gimp plugins in the app center. I’ve played with super-resolution in a CoLab and adding it to the cropped AI detection images that get Emailed to our cell phones by my security camera system add-on is on my ToDo list. See my GitHub for some examples of what it can do:
https://github.com/wb666greene/AI-Person-Detector-with-YOLO-verification-Version-2
Installation is a PITA so if I could figure out how to make it a snap or appimage it could be useful to a lot more people.
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I tend to use appimage and snap, too, but I am coming around to flatpak - simply because it's being picked up by so many developers.
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I can’t recall ever using a flatpack app. I briefly used Docker to try the original Darknet yolo model and I recall it being quite difficult to set up and I had totally forgotten how to use in a year later.
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