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  • Kinda OT: Running kodi from Grub2.

    From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Sat Jun 12 13:21:13 2021
    Kodi is a very popular media center distro from Britain, developed under Ubuntu. It was originally called xbmc, the "X-box media center," but
    when Microsoft acquired X-box, a new name was required. RPMs are
    available in the repos, but they are for the latest release, Kodi 19,
    which was the first release to use Python 3, and many add-ons have not
    yet been updated. There are two variants available, OpenELEC and
    LibreELEC. The latter seems more popular. LibreELEC is available as an
    ARM version for the RaspberryPi, and as a "generic" version for x64.
    There is an add-on for those using MythTV.

    I have had ongoing difficulty with adding Kodi to my Grub2 menu. Kodi
    is meant to be the only OS present, but quite a few users want to
    dual-boot it. I was looking at chainloading it using syslinux, but
    nothing worked. Today I tried again, and got there. How I did it is
    probably not of general interest, but I used a method set out at https://go.janleow.com/2021/02/libreelec-grub2-menu-entry-for-booting.html

    --which worked first time, once I had eliminated my typos.

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Sat Jun 12 17:58:52 2021
    On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 08:21:13 -0400, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

    Kodi is a very popular media center distro from Britain, developed under Ubuntu. It was originally called xbmc, the "X-box media center," but
    when Microsoft acquired X-box, a new name was required. RPMs are
    available in the repos, but they are for the latest release, Kodi 19,
    which was the first release to use Python 3, and many add-ons have not
    yet been updated. There are two variants available, OpenELEC and
    LibreELEC. The latter seems more popular. LibreELEC is available as an
    ARM version for the RaspberryPi, and as a "generic" version for x64.
    There is an add-on for those using MythTV.

    I have had ongoing difficulty with adding Kodi to my Grub2 menu. Kodi
    is meant to be the only OS present, but quite a few users want to
    dual-boot it. I was looking at chainloading it using syslinux, but
    nothing worked. Today I tried again, and got there. How I did it is probably not of general interest, but I used a method set out at https://go.janleow.com/2021/02/libreelec-grub2-menu-entry-for-booting.html

    --which worked first time, once I had eliminated my typos.

    Just fyi, kodi can be run as it's own desktop environment from the login menu via
    $ cat /usr/share/xsessions/kodi.desktop
    [Desktop Entry]
    Name=Kodi
    Comment=This session will start Kodi media center
    Exec=kodi-standalone
    TryExec=kodi-standalone
    Type=Application

    Kodi can also be run as an application from within another de such as kde. It takes
    over the keyboard so it's highly recommended to save all work and close other applications before starting it.

    It's been a while since I tested it. IIRC getting it to exit was a pain and required restarting X.

    I don't think it's intended to be run directly from grub.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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    Change dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org to davidwhodgins@teksavvy.com for
    email replies.

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Thu Jun 17 15:43:30 2021
    On 13/6/21 2:58 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:
    On Sat, 12 Jun 2021 08:21:13 -0400, Doug Laidlaw
    <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:

    Just fyi, kodi can be run as it's own desktop environment from the login menu via
    $ cat /usr/share/xsessions/kodi.desktop
    [Desktop Entry]
    Name=Kodi
    Comment=This session will start Kodi media center
    Exec=kodi-standalone
    TryExec=kodi-standalone
    Type=Application

    Kodi can also be run as an application from within another de such as
    kde. It takes
    over the keyboard so it's highly recommended to save all work and close other
    applications before starting it.

    It's been a while since I tested it. IIRC getting it to exit was a pain and required restarting X.

    I don't think it's intended to be run directly from grub.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins


    Thanks, Dave, I installed Calculate OS (based on Gentoo) on my second
    HD. It took over one whole disk, wiping my Kodi directories, then
    couldn't work as well as Mageia.I I had an old version, which should
    have updated, since Calculate is a rolling release. But there is one particular update that butts in after about 8 packages, and there is no machinery to skip that one; it simply exits the updater. The package
    manager is Portage, of which I know nothing.

    As my supermarket advises (changed to suit): "That is why I choose Mageia!"

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