While basic settings can be accessed from System->Settings on the home screen, the configuration file(s) are located in $HOME/.kodi/ folder on your system – you are advised not make any changes in this folder until of course you know exactly what you’re doing.

This will help you avoid unnecessary problems when you ask Kodi to scan media on your system.

Make sure your videos, music, and photos are kept in separate directories.

Kodi requires you to name your media files in a particular format as it helps media scrapers to pick up the correct information.

This way, you can install other available add-ons to access media content from the Internet.

For example, in my case, version 16.1 – which is the latest stable version – was installed, something which I confirmed by running the following command: If everything goes fine, the latest version of the media center application will be installed on your system. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

Sudo apt-get install software-properties-common Plus, we’ll also explain in detail, the basic set-up of the media center.Īssuming that you’ve already upgraded your Ubuntu box to version 16.04, here’s a set of commands that you need to run in order to install Kodi: In this article, we will discuss the how-to of Kodi download and installation on the newly-released Ubuntu 16.04. It uses a 10-foot user interface and a remote control as a primary input device, which is inline with its design philosophy – a media player application for your living room. Functionality-wise, Kodi provides an interface that lets you easily access all your media – including videos, photos, music – stored on a hard drive, optical disc, local network, as well as on the Internet.

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