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2018-02-13, 21:03
(This post was last modified: 2018-02-13, 21:06 by bred_pitt.)
The official repositories don't work for old kodi-versions, unfortunately. I have three devices here, where a linux-upgrade is impossible due to hard- and/or software-limitations. Since it's not possible installing newest kodi on older linux (ubuntu)-versions, I'm stuck with old kodi-versions on these devices.
Does anybody know a working mirror-server with addons for xbmc frodo, kodi gotham and/or kodi isengard? Especially the pvr- and skin-addons are important, since they are never backward-compatible.
Thanks in advance.
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Pvr Addons where never in any repo.
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Well, pvr-addons for frodo are missing in the ubuntu-archive-mirrors. I guess this is due to the fact that pvr was in development at the time of the frodo-release. So I found a backport-mirror for gotham with a testing (or nightly?)-release (for ubuntu 11.04). Unfortunately the tvheadend-pvr-addon in this release is not working. Maybe because of the testing/nightly-stage. Are there backports with stable-releases? What's with old skins and other addons? Especially customizable confluence-mods are bend to certain versions of kodi.
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you won't have any luck finding pvr addons a 7y old release. Just compile from source.
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2018-02-21, 02:11
(This post was last modified: 2018-02-21, 02:12 by bred_pitt.)
Well...."all dependencies alltogether"...that's actually the advantage of the bundlings. And no...the pvr-addons communicate in a server/client-way. Backend and client don't even need to be on the same machine and don't need to use the same OS. Addons usually don't have linux-dependencies at all. Their dependencies are usually kodi-internal (addens sometimes depend on other addons).
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If your hardware is really that old, you should probably look at some updates.
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snap and flatpak needs halfway recent linux as well.
How about you tell us what exactly is your issue and why you cannot upgrade to something recent?
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Unfortunately addons are largely created by people outside the core kodi developer community. We don't control them.
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You got it! Bad idea trying to force them to release a new version of their addons every time kodi gets an update.