[Tutorial] - Build Kodi

Tips, Tricks and Tutorials Raspberry Pi
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Hi,
This new tutorial is about building Kodi.

Step 1 : You need to enable the opengl driver of the rpi

Step 2 : build kodi

sudo apt build-dep kodi sudo apt install uuid-dev libcrossguid-dev git clone https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc --depth=1 cd xbmc ./bootstrap ./configure --disable-openmax make sudo make install

After you can launch kodi with :

kodi

Fullscreen mode or windowed mode works :slight_smile:

There is only sofware decoding until it will be implemented in opengl driver, but it work good on rpi 3 with 720p videos.

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Enjoy,

Aworan

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I made a PPA for Kodi on the Pi 2 and 3 a while back. I’d be interested in feedback :slight_smile:️

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Been using Raspbian for 4 years, pretty confident. Recently installed MATE on a Pi3 and loving it. Followed your tutorial, however I get errors when I try making Kodi. I have installe d OpenGL drivers as instructed. I suspect it may have been as I did some fiddling a month ago to do some DVD Ripping with the Pi. The error log is Here,

any suggestions greatly appreciated.

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I will give your package a shot. Will report if it worked :slight_smile: .

Kratos

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Looks good. No problems yet.

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Hi,

I’m struggling with building Kodi on my Raspi3.
It might be a stupid question, but when executing ‘./bootstrap’ I get the following.
‘bash: ./bootstrap: No such file or directory’

First time I’m building something, but so far not really successful.
I hope someone can help me.

Thanks,
Ackerjun

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hello !
Ive tried this tutorial but i have same problem …

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They moved the bootstrap script.

I think you’re better off with the official guide:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/docs/README.raspberrypi

cc @vorbiss