Installation of old KODI18.9 release

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Hello team,
could anyone explain a newbie, how to install older version of Kodi 18.9 ?

Pacman only offers the latest 19.1 version.

What I have already done:

  • installed kodi 19.1
  • installed downgrade
  • created environment variable DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA =1

If I try to install lower version with sudo DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA=1 downgrade kodi, I am getting dependencies error which I can’t resolve.

  1. Is there a better way how to install an older KODI ?
  2. Could you advise me step by step, what to perform please ?

Thank you.

sudo DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA=1 downgrade kodi                                                                                            

Downgrading from A.L.A. is disabled on the stable branch. To override this behavior, set DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA to 1 .
See https://archived-wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Using_Downgrade  for more details.

Available packages:
    <omitted>
   18)  kodi    18.8    4  x86_64  (remote)
   19)  kodi    18.9    1  x86_64  (remote)
   20)  kodi    18.9    3  x86_64  (remote)
   21)  kodi    18.9    3  x86_64  (local)

select a package by number: 21
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "python2-pycryptodomex", a dependency of "kodi"
warning: cannot resolve "python2-pillow6", a dependency of "kodi"
warning: cannot resolve "python2-simplejson", a dependency of "kodi"
warning: cannot resolve "KODI-BIN", a dependency of "kodi"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      kodi

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] n


sudo pacman -S python2-pycryptodomex                                                                                                
error: target not found: python2-pycryptodomex

sudo pacman -Syy python2-pycryptodomex                                                                                        1 ✘ 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                          165,3 KiB  1502 KiB/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
 extra                                                        1932,8 KiB  3,09 MiB/s 00:01 [####################################################] 100%
 community                                                       6,5 MiB  3,14 MiB/s 00:02 [####################################################] 100%
 multilib                                                      178,1 KiB  3,78 MiB/s 00:00 [####################################################] 100%
error: target not found: python2-pycryptodomex
2

I think you wont be able to downgrade since it is not in a repo anymore.

You could download an older version from source and compile it on your machine.

http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/source/

3

Can I hold two versions of kodi, or shall I remove the previously installed Kodi 19.1 before I try to compile 18.9 ?

4

I would remove 19.1, just to be sure and I think you cant keep both.
Why not just use 19 btw?

If you need a howto how to install tars.

https://classicforum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=26193.0

5

some local/unofficial addons incompatibility :frowning: python2 vs python3

6

yes, I tried that yesterday, without success.
There is no ./configure inside

and kodi requires cmake.
Readme data sounds like an overkill for newbie :smiley:

7

I’m using Kodi 19 and am happy with it, why don’t you?