[Salamandro]

Hi all

I've kinda left my media center (Intel NUC) sitting around and now I find myself with a quite old Ubuntu LTS 16.04 / Kodi 17.6 and I'm looking for an upgrade path. It's been ages since I installed this system, so I have no idea what steps I took to set it up.

Some things I remember:

• Some trouble with bitstreaming from Ubuntu to the Denon AVR
  
• Aeon Flux skin with some modifications to menus etc.
  
• Couple of SMB shares to my NAS
  
• Couple of plug-ins, but I don't think I'm really using any of those anymore
  
• And I guess just the whole media library, but that seems to be automatically managed
  

I don't think dist-upgrading makes any sense when going from LTS 16.04 to 22.04, so I'll go with a completely fresh install. Can I just copy the whole Kodi folder? Or will I have to sift through configurations?

Thanks in advance!

[Klojum]

The basics of Kodi do not differ very much when going from 16.04 to 22.04. The biggest hurdle might be the Aeon Flux skin. I would disable it and have the default skin (Confluence) ready to be replaced with the current Estuary. If you still use the same monitor/TV, then the guisettings.xml file won't need much adjusting. The AVR workings are not really my department.

Copying the whole Kodi profile folder is a good idea alone for backup purposes already.

[Soli]

Dist-upgraded ubuntu 14.04 on my Chromebox the other day. MrChromebox’ script needs at least 18.04 to run. I upgraded first to 16.04, then to 18.04. I did anticipate at least some haywire, espescially with SystemD replacing Upstart. But it fokn worked like magic. So you could try this unless your ocd requires a fresh install.

[DaVu]

Please be aware, that *buntu 22.04 seems to ship python 3.10 which could cause problems. https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/21544

Ubuntu 20.04 still has support until 2025. I would recommend to use that instead.