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I installed Kodi a while back on what was then Ubuntu 17.04 (I'm now on 17.10) using apt install kodi. I always noticed it came with a Kodi from Debian banner and that the release was behind at 17.3.

Now that 17.5 came out, fixing some bugs I was experiencing, I want to update. However apt update && apt upgrade do not yield a newer version yet.

In addition, I seem unable to update Kodi from the ppa. I already added it to sources.list, but everytime I remove and reinstall kodi, it will draw from universe (17.3) instead of the ppa. I tried pinning but I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.

Edit: apt-cache policy | grep xbmc output:

$ sudo apt-cache policy | grep xbmc
  50 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages
     release v=17.10,o=LP-PPA-team-xbmc,a=artful,n=artful,l=Kodi stable,c=main,b=i386
  50 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages
     release v=17.10,o=LP-PPA-team-xbmc,a=artful,n=artful,l=Kodi stable,c=main,b=amd64

apt-cache policy kodi output:

$ apt-cache policy kodi
kodi:
  Installed: 2:17.3+dfsg1-3
  Candidate: 2:17.3+dfsg1-3
  Version table:
 *** 2:17.3+dfsg1-3 500
        500 http://tw.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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  • I had no idea who's in charge of updating the universe repos. Thought that was Debian/Canonical. What does packaging entail and how do I go about it? I'd love to help but don't have the know-how. Anyway removed the offending line lest kittens be killed. – bluppfisk Oct 25 '17 at 03:03
  • Add the output of apt-cache policy kodi, please. – muru Oct 25 '17 at 03:42
  • added, seems to point to universe but unsure as to why. – bluppfisk Oct 25 '17 at 08:05
  • Seems like the PPA doesn't offer a package named kodi for 17.10... which is indeed the case: https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ubuntu/ppa?field.series_filter=artful – muru Oct 25 '17 at 08:06
  • ah thanks, I should've checked that. Is there a way to force it (using an Ubuntu 16 version)? – bluppfisk Oct 25 '17 at 08:16
  • There should be a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d for this PPA. Edit it and replace artful with xenial. – muru Oct 25 '17 at 08:34
  • many thanks! will try that. The nightly currently works on artful too. – bluppfisk Oct 25 '17 at 11:08

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