Install Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 1 on Ubuntu 16.04. Kodi v17 for Ubuntu 16.04 has been released with Estuary and Estouchy themes, an improved music library and live TV and PVR/DVR improvements.
Kodi, formerly known as XBMC is an open source media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. Kodi allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.
Kodi can play all your music including AAC, MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV and WMA formats. Kodi can play movies too. It supports all the main video formats and sources, including streamable online media, ISOs, 3D, H.264, HEVC, WEBM.
Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 1
The release announcement says that Kodi 17 features a huge amount of work in areas like video playback, live TV and PVR/DVR, the music library, skinning and more. It features a new default skin, as well as a new default touchscreen skinned, named Estuary and Estouchy, respectively.
The biggest visual change from Kodi 16 to 17 is the new default skin Estuary. Kodi music library has changed. The improved music library now supports better tag reading and scraping, better handling of albums and artists with the addition of adding artist role.
Install Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 1 on Ubuntu
Open Terminal and run the following commands to install Kodi v17 “Krypton” Beta 1 on Ubuntu 16.04 Systems:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kodi
sudo apt-get install kodi-audioencoder-* kodi-pvr-*
Once installed, open Kodi from Ubuntu Dash or Terminal.
If you aren’t happy with Koid and wish to uninstall and remove Kodi v17 Beta 1, run the commands given below
sudo apt-get remove kodi*
sudo apt-get update
Credit: https://kodi.tv/kodi-v17-krypton-beta-1/