Kodi 14.1 “Helix” Stable is released, you can install on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA

Kodi 14.1 “Helix” Stable is released, you can install on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS) and Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana via PPA

Kodi (formerly XBMC Media Center) is an open source and very powerful project that provides all the necessary tools for transforming your regular PC into a bona fide HTPC, which if used in conjunction a big screen TV and a Hi-Fi audio system, will transform your living room into a veritable home theater.

What's new in Kodi 14.1:

• Fix incorrect video screensize on Android AML devices
• Fix: potential segfault when silencing audio
• Fix: do not skip streaminfo if format is not know.
• Fix: DXVA flickering on AMD
• Fix: prevent possible over-flow in ALSA
• Fix: possible sorting problems in library
• Fix: possible problem in library navigation
• Fix: don’t scroll text when it’s set to not do it
• Fix: scroll text if it’s too long on spinner controls
• Fix: don’t overlap PVR search labels
• Fix: bug in DLNA client string on iOS
• Fix: updated several PVR add-ons
• Fix: remember played state of video when started from recently added
• Fix: correct vsync on OSX
• Fix: broken keyboard input
• Fix: prevent crash on circular dependencies of add-ons
• Fix: large file support on Android
• Fix: random exiting on Android x86 builds (Nexus Player for example)

Features at a glance

Key features include powerful media management capabilities, a fluid Interface, plug-ins that allow for great extensibility, cinematic effects and visualizations, built-in multimedia codecs, themes, and much more. The application can play your entire collection of music files, supporting all the popular formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, WMA or OGG. It also provides support for cue sheets, audio tagging and smart playlists.

Your entire video collection can also be played by Kodi, supporting all the major video formats like AVI, MP4, DivX, XviD, DVD Video, MKV, and many more. In addition, it includes support for Internet streams. The program provides support for organizing and viewing your favorite TV shows, which will be sorted by episodes and seasons. Moreover, Kodi can be used to display an entire collection of digital photos.

Install/Upgrade Kodi 14.1 “Helix” Stable on Ubuntu / Linux Mint via PPA :

To Install/Update Kodi 14.1 “Helix” Stable on Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via ppa, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

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

Upgrading

To update XBMC/Kodi when a new version is released, just do a general system/package or use the following commands in the terminal (or via SSH):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Uninstalling

If you need to remove and purge an application and finally removing/purging also the application configurations files, do so by using the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove kodi*
sudo apt-get purge kodi*