abacao / boot2kodi

Installation of Kodi into Ubuntu Server from 16.04 to 24.04

Boot2Kodi

Note - Feel free to do pull requests. I'm available to add new developments!

Installation of Kodi into Ubuntu Server:

Tested in:

• 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) - Canonical extended security until April 2026
• 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) - Canonical extended security until April 2028
• 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) - Canonical extended security until April 2030
• 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) - Canonical extended security until April 2032
• 24.04 LTS ((Noble Numbat) - Canonical extended security until April 2034

Please let me know if you have tested this and if something failed.

Shell script to install Kodi on a Ubuntu Server and at boot, go straight to Kodi.

The following instructions are based on the lastest version of Ubuntu.

What you need to do:

1. Install Ubuntu Server with only "OpenSSH Server" option or "Ubuntu Server minimized" (some iso sources)
   1. For 18.04 - "netinstall"
   2. For 22.04 - "server-22.04-iso"
   3. For 24.04 - "server-24.04-iso"
2. Make sure git is installed or install git by sudo apt install git -y
3. Clone this repo like git clone https://github.com/abacao/Boot2Kodi.git
4. cd Boot2Kodi
5. Run the installation script sudo sh ./install.sh
6. Reboot

Notes:

• Memory Issues: In 20.04, the minimum requirement for RAM is 2Gb. In 22.04, the minimum requirement for RAM is 2Gb (4Gb for a physical machine and 2Gb for virtual). In 24.04, the minimum requirement for RAM is 4Gb (for a physical machine or virtual).

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boot2kodi's Issues

can't work on orangep pi pc2

E: Package 'xserver-xorg-video-intel' has no installation candidate

Comment accéder à Kodi une fois installé ?

Bonjour,

Je viens de suivre tes instructions d'installations. Mais je ne trouve pas comment accéder à Kodi une fois l'installation effectué ?

Merci

Screen sleeping after a while

Hey, do you perhaps know how to prevent the screen from sleeping? I do not have this configured within Kodi, so I suspect it might be something to do with the X11 config?

SMB from GUI

Hi!
It's very useful. Thank you!
I'm looking for it as alternative for Libreelec with full functional of ubuntu( For LAMP, Nextcloud, etc)
SMB service from Kodi interface switched ON, but I can't to connect to it from another computer (Win, Mac)

If it helps... I think it's a good idea to make default folders in home dir with write permitions(now i cant make new dir from kodi file manager), like Videos, Downloads, Music, etc and "switching on" SMB from kodi make home dir shared.

Repository

Hello, thank you for script.

Could you include original kodi repository to get newest version?

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi

Could not open webUI

I do not know if this could find you well.
But I am having a trouble to open the webui from a computer under same ip.
After I start kodi service, I could not access to webui even if I change the /home/kodi/.kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml
true
true


true

it is sill not working. and refused me to connect.

Any support on this one?

Unnecessary packages?

Hi,

I'm wondering if these packages are needed:

• upower
• xserver-xorg-video-intel

upower seems to only be useful on battery powered system whereas xserver-xorg-video-intel isn't needed except on systems running intel integrated graphics. I should mention that I installed this on a system that only has an ATI GPU, and things seem to work despite not having xserver-xorg-video-radeon.

Support system poweroff via UI

1. Install upower

$ apt-get install upower

2. Create file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/custom-actions.pkla with content:

[Actions for kodi user]
Identity=unix-user:kodi
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.*;org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.*;org.freedesktop.udisks.*;org.freedesktop.login1.*
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=yes
ResultActive=yes

This has been verified to work on Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 LTS, just needs to be added to this setup process.

Screen not waking up

Thanks for your work! It's pretty awesome to have a quick and light install of Kodi with Ubuntu Server.

I have the server always on, and it's connectec to a TV. When I go to the TV, the video signal from the server is off, sometimes it comes back just pressing some keys, but usually it doesn't and is necessary to start playing something through Chorus to wake up the screen.

Is there any way to disable the screen sleep function? I think it is not related to Kodi because all the Save Power settings are turned off.