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I installed kodi from the standard repositories (Ubuntu 16.04 xenial):

# apt show kodi
Package: kodi
Version: 2:16.1~git20160424.1410-final-0wily

The web site for kodi states that the latest version is 16.1 "Jarvis".

What is the relationship between these two version numbers?

The install wiki mentions that one can use the team PPA but I do not know whether the versions diverge.

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  • Both versions are the same, you can see they are both 16.1, AFAIK there is no difference as Kodi has moved on in development, I have not had an update for a while. I can't really find anything to back this up though but Kodi 17 went alpha a while ago and is getting a lot of development, so only bug fixes for 16.1, for updates (if there is any) the kodi PPA will get it first. – Mark Kirby Aug 16 '16 at 17:51
  • Ah, correct - I was fixed on the 2: part of the version and did not realize the this is 16.1 in both cases. Would you mind just turning your comment into an answer so that I can accept it? – WoJ Aug 16 '16 at 17:58
  • You can accept the answer below if you like, he did a good job explaining the 2: for you :) – Mark Kirby Aug 16 '16 at 18:06
  • @MarkKirby Write your own answer. I thought you weren't checking this question that's why wrote the answer. I can delete mine :) – Anwar Aug 16 '16 at 18:19
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    @Anwar It is fine, I was just leaving a passing comment. All I can say is "They are the same version", your answer is better than mine would of been. – Mark Kirby Aug 16 '16 at 18:21
  • The interesting thing is I'm also using Xenial and I'm only getting 15.2 as the highest, which matches with this. 16.1 is only made available for yakkety users. I don't know how You get 16.1 from standard repository though. Are you sure you weren't using any PPA? – Anwar Aug 16 '16 at 18:28
  • @Anwar: I use the standard repos only, just one PPA for systemd. I checked with apt-cache policy to make sure something has not sneaked in. – WoJ Aug 17 '16 at 09:16

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Both versions are 16.1 and are very close at least (if not exact version). The number 2 before 16.1 separated by : is called an epoch, and sometimes used to distinguish versioning of packages with two very diverse development track.

Read more about this special number here Why do some packages have extra numbers on the front of their version string?

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