Can't install Kodi on Kubuntu 12.04

[ronshor]

This is the message I get

[z31fanatic]

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

[ronshor]

This is exactly what I did ... and got nothing eventually

[ronshor]

This is what I get when i try to install kodi

[Rog132]

To make the helping a bit easier

To make the helping a bit easier

1) Use the command line

2) Add the full output as text not screen captures.


About the error message

You have tried to install the Kodi with the command:

sudo apt-get install kodi

The output is:

kodi: Depends curl but it is not installable.

What is the cause of this ?
Try to install the 'curl'
What is the error ?

[claydoh]

I might suggest running apt-get update (again ) to see if there is/was a temp issue with the repos - the libshairplay0 package is available in the kodi ppa, and curl most definitely is available, as is the intel vaapi driver, in the official ubuntu repos.

If this persists, try
sudo apt-get -f install , this may pull in those missing bits.

I have to concur with Rog here, pasting the terminal output as text is much easier for us to read, especially if one is using a mobile device to view things

[ronshor]

Before installing Kodi I had an old version of XBMC that didn't work very well (I installed it from the Software Center)

I didn't uninstall it before installing Kodi, so could that be the problem ?

Anyway, I did everthing again and this is what i got

ron@ron-Vostro-270:~$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
[sudo] password for ron:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
software-properties-common is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
gir1.2-ubuntuoneui-3.0 culmus linux-headers-3.5.0-23-generic linux-headers-3.5.0-23
libubuntuoneui-3.0-1 thunderbird-globalmenu libid3tag0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ron@ron-Vostro-270:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:

More info: https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpdB9J5k/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpdB9J5k/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 91E7EE5E from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpdB9J5k/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 91E7EE5E: public key "Launchpad PPA for XBMC for Linux" imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
ron@ron-Vostro-270:~$ sudo apt-get update
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Reading package lists... Done
ron@ron-Vostro-270:~$ sudo apt-get install kodi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kodi : Depends: curl but it is not installable
Depends: libshairplay0 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libva-intel-vaapi-driver but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
ron@ron-Vostro-270:

[ronshor]

If this persists, try
sudo apt-get -f install , this may pull in those missing bits.

I'm willing to try that command but can you please explain to me what exactly it supposed to do ?
What ' -f install ' mean ?

[claydoh]

The "-f" is shorthand for "--fix-broken", which attempts to install those missing pieces if it is possible. The "install" specifies, well, to install things (you don't specify a package name in this case).

[claydoh]

I just installed precise 12.04 into a VM, updated it, added the ppa and went and installed Kodi no problem

Could you list any ppas you have installed in addition to the xbmc one?

[ronshor]

do you mean other ppas I have ?
I have JDownloader and Google Chrome PPAs installed

By the way, I tried to uninstall Kodi, and then to install XBMC again so I could uninstalled it properly. But right now I can't even install XBMC from the Software Center anymore. Is says "the package system could not be initialized. your configuration may be broken. Unable to correct problems. You have held broken packages".

[claydoh]

Ok, I am running out of ideas here. I was checking to see if you had any oddball ppas that might interfere, but you look fine there.

But to revert to xbmc, you would first need to not only remove Kodi, but also all the other things kodi also needed from the ppa.
An easy tool that does this is called ppa-purge, which you should be able to install using muon or apt-get


Then run:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

This will remove the ppa entry and revert all packages you have from it to the official ones from Ubuntu. It will tell you what it plans to do before asking permission to proceed, so you can copy and paste the output into a reply if you are not sure about things before giving the OK.

[ronshor]

It seems like I have a bigger problem here. I tried to install PPA-Purge from Muon and this is the message I got

[SecretCode]

I'm going to repeat this:

To make the helping a bit easier

1) Use the command line

2) Add the full output as text not screen captures.

and this:

I have to concur with Rog here, pasting the terminal output as text is much easier for us to read, especially if one is using a mobile device to view things

Also when you do post text output, put it in CODE tags using the # button.



Can you try installing aptitude directly?

sudo apt-get install aptitude

[ronshor]

Also when you do post text output, put it in CODE tags using the # button.

sudo apt-get install aptitude

I'm sorry but I don't really understand what you mean. What is "CODE tags" ?

As for the command line, I made a post of all the command line output as text when I tried to install Kodi again yesterday. It's in this thread.

This is the output I get now with the aptitude installation
#
ron@ron-Vostro-270:~$ sudo apt-get install aptitude
[sudo] password for ron:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package aptitude is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'aptitude' has no installation candidate
ron@ron-Vostro-270:~$#