If you are using Ubuntu 16.04, you should also update your system. You can add the official PPA repository of Kodi using this command in a terminal (use Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut in Ubuntu to launch terminal): sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa This method should also work on Linux Mint, Pinguy OS, Deepin Linux, LXLE, Linux Lite, Elementary OS and other Ubuntu based Linux distributions. The awesome team behind Kodi has created a PPA so that you can easily install the new versions of Kodi on Ubuntu. Installing latest Kodi version on Ubuntu and Linux Mint So what can you do to install the latest version of Kodi on Ubuntu-based Linux distributions? The answer is use PPA. Which means using this version of Kodi will not provide you the latest and greatest features of Kodi. However, the Kodi available in the official Ubuntu software repositories is not the latest one.

Kodi is available in the universe repository of Ubuntu and you can install it using the standard apt-get install command.

It is fairly easy to install Kodi in Ubuntu.

Kodi is available on almost all platforms

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