Hello all,
in this github repo you can find a Kodi stable version import from ppa repository.
And in this github repo you can find a Kodi Nightly version import from ppa repository.
The appimages are quiet big (~280 Mo)!
Kodi media center - Appimage
Bionicpup64 8.0 repository has this one
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 64_8.0.sfs
It is 94MB.
The appimage one probably has a lot of dependency stuff, so it will work in a lot of different Linux OS's.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 64_8.0.sfs
It is 94MB.
The appimage one probably has a lot of dependency stuff, so it will work in a lot of different Linux OS's.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
YaPI(any iso installer)
Kodi is what used to be called XBMC (X-box media center).Flash wrote:What is Kodi? Why would anyone want it?
It is a very fancy media player/home theater/media library software.
You'd want it to run your television/media center with your computer.
Personally, it is just too much for me, but I can see why people like it.
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Mike Walsh
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Well, I gotta confess, I like it! I've been looking for a decent, easy-to-use media player for my recent install of Bionicpup64 8.0 for a while.
This fires straight up, sweet as you like. And it just 'works', OOTB.
Oh, I agree, I'm very atypical for a Puppy user. With a relatively powerful machine (for its time), tons of storage space (terabytes of the stuff - internal and external) plus the fact that I tend to run a LOT of apps remotely from completely outside of Puppy, app size has never really been an issue for me. Yes, I like to run a lot of 'big-name' software (with all its bloat!
) But I also like to run some of the best, carefully-crafted Puppy apps, too.....tiny as they are.
Top & bottom of the matter is, quite simply, that if I want to run something, regardless of size/complexity and/or 'bloat', I will often go out of my way to find a method to do so. Besides, this is small compared to the KDE-based Digikam photo-organiser AppImage; that runs out at close on 450 MB (:shock:), and I use it regularly in all my Pups.....
While I appreciate, and regularly use, many of Bill's well-coded Puppy-specific apps (thanks, Bill!), this is about the best Xmas prezzie I could have had.
Thanks for finding it!
Mike.
This fires straight up, sweet as you like. And it just 'works', OOTB.
Oh, I agree, I'm very atypical for a Puppy user. With a relatively powerful machine (for its time), tons of storage space (terabytes of the stuff - internal and external) plus the fact that I tend to run a LOT of apps remotely from completely outside of Puppy, app size has never really been an issue for me. Yes, I like to run a lot of 'big-name' software (with all its bloat!
) But I also like to run some of the best, carefully-crafted Puppy apps, too.....tiny as they are.Top & bottom of the matter is, quite simply, that if I want to run something, regardless of size/complexity and/or 'bloat', I will often go out of my way to find a method to do so. Besides, this is small compared to the KDE-based Digikam photo-organiser AppImage; that runs out at close on 450 MB (:shock:), and I use it regularly in all my Pups.....
While I appreciate, and regularly use, many of Bill's well-coded Puppy-specific apps (thanks, Bill!), this is about the best Xmas prezzie I could have had.
Thanks for finding it!
Mike.
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Mike Walsh
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- Location: King's Lynn, UK.
It's self-explanatory in a way, Bill, given the nature of AppImages (like the Windows 'PortableApps'.)rcrsn51 wrote:My Kodi squashfs module made in Debian Buster is 77MB.
I don't know what these Appimage people are doing.
An AppImage, as bigpup says, is built to run in as many Linux distros as is possible. When correctly-built, they contain absolutely everything needed for them to run. This is all unpacked into /tmp for the duration of the session; existing system dependencies, even if present, are ignored, since the AppImage is coded to use its own, supplied versions of these.
About the only system-dependent item that is necessary is the native glibc, and associated software. Myself, I like to use them when they've been assembled properly, because there's no episodes of 'chase the libs down the dependency rabbit-hole'. It's all there, ready to go.....
It is daft, in a way, having duplicates of a lot of stuff on your system, I agree. While these are not a lot of good for those of us with limited hardware resources (an area where, admittedly, Puppy really shines.....certainly, for instance, with my ancient P4-powered Dell laptop), where there are resources to spare (in this case, my big old Compaq desktop tower system) they are intended, primarily, purely for 'ease-of-use'.
I run a totally different set of software & apps on the old Dell than what is in use on the big Compaq. (*shrug*) One needs to be sympathetic to the hardware's capabilities, after all.....
Mike.
