johnny99
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Joined: 24 Oct 2005
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Location: Berkeley, California
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 Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:56 am Post subject: migration from xbmc to kodi |
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I see kodi is in portage, but I do not see any direction regarding upgrading from xbmc to kodi, so what should one do?
One search engine result said not to uninstall xbmc before installing kodi, but that was for a different distribution.
When installing kodi, xbmc blocks:
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[blocks B ] media-tv/xbmc ("media-tv/xbmc" is blocking media-tv/kodi-14.1)
[blocks B ] media-tv/kodi ("media-tv/kodi" is blocking media-tv/xbmc-12.3)
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I fearlessly uninstalled xbmc, then installed kodi:
emerge --unmerge media-tv/xbmc
emerge media-tv/kodi
I had to unmask ffmpeg in order to allow media-video/ffmpeg-2.5.4:
echo 'media-video/ffmpeg' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge media-tv/kodi
I observed xbmc is still the build directory name, so they have not completed the rebranding, but during install it prints
| Code: | | You can run kodi with the command 'kodi' |
Finally I see
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* Installation of a symlink is blocked by a directory:
* '/usr/share/xbmc'
* This symlink will be merged with a different name:
* '/usr/share/xbmc.backup.0000'
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* Installation of a symlink is blocked by a directory:
* '/usr/share/xbmc'
* This symlink will be merged with a different name:
* '/usr/share/xbmc.backup.0000'
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I am manually fixing this for now:
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mv /usr/share/xbmc /usr/share/xbmc.12.3
mv /usr/share/xbmc.backup.0000 /usr/share/xbmc
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I also see a symlink to kodi:
ls -alF /usr/share/ |grep xbmc
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 7 23:31 xbmc -> kodi/
drwxr-xr-x 3 pico users 72 Mar 7 22:02 xbmc.12.3/
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Looks like my old init system will still work, as xbmc still calls kodi
ls -alF /usr/bin/ |egrep 'kodi|xbmc'
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5129 Mar 7 23:30 kodi*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Mar 7 23:31 kodi-send -> ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1619 Mar 7 23:30 kodi-standalone*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 7 23:31 xbmc -> kodi*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Mar 7 23:31 xbmc-standalone -> kodi-standalone*
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In checking for broken stuff, I did run into a media-video/libav blocker
emerge @preserved-rebuild
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[blocks B ] media-video/ffmpeg:0 ("media-video/ffmpeg:0" is blocking media-video/libav-9.17)
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So I removed it and all things that depend on it:
equery depends media-video/libav
| Code: | * These packages depend on media-video/libav:
media-libs/gegl-0.2.0-r2 (libav ? media-video/libav:0)
media-libs/opencv-2.4.9 (libav ? media-video/libav:0)
media-libs/xine-lib-1.2.6 (<media-video/libav-0.8.2-r1)
media-sound/mpd-0.18.16 (libav ? media-video/libav:0)
media-video/mplayer-1.2_pre20130729 (>=media-video/libav-9.8)
media-video/mplayer2-2.0_p20131009 (>=media-video/libav-9.12[threads?,vdpau?])
virtual/ffmpeg-9-r1 (>=media-video/libav-9.12[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,X?,encode?,gsm?,jpeg2k?,mp3?,opus?,sdl?,speex?,theora?,threads?,truetype?,vaapi?,vdpau?,x264?])
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emerge --unmerge virtual/ffmpeg media-video/mplayer2 media-video/mplayer media-sound/mpd media-libs/xine media-libs/opencv media-libs/gegl
emerge @preserved-rebuild
Without any other changes to the system I rebooted, and xbmc auto-started as I had it setup for xbmc.
The video seems to be a lower resolution, or maybe darker and grainy, but 'top' shows me it using the gpu for graphic processing.
Not sure how to fix the darker and grainy look. xbmc-12.3 was perfect. |
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