Fixing Mate

[Mike R]

fixing Kodi --- again....
following advice form DarkSky on the Manjaro forum --> https://forum.manjaro.org/t/seahorse-ca ... g/149938/6
Going to take a bit to get to square one.
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First, begin with a squeaky install of Manjarao-Mate...
Enable the AUR repository in Add/Remove programs (probably a way to do this in terminal).
Then update

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sudo pacman -Syu

Install a few utilities...

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sudo pacman -S keepassxc telegram-desktop keepassxc gnome-keyring seahorse

add as needed
Change to the testing branch - link --> https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Switching_Branches
To change back replace 'testing' with 'stable'

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sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch 'testing'
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 && sudo pacman -Syu

Now at square one:

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kodi-rpi-git-dev kodi-rpi-git-eventclients kodi-rpi-git-tools-texturepacker

results in massive # of 403 errors - fail
return to 'stable' branch
Execute above again - Sucess!!
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Creating system user accounts
group 'kodi" with GID 966
User 'kodi' with uid 966 and gid 966
Ok...??
add/edit few lines of /boot/config.txt

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dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,cma-512
disable_fw_kms_setup=1
hdmi_enable_4kp60=1

reboot
start kodi -version 21! damn... what can of worms have I opened now???
start avahi-daemon

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sudo systemctl enable --now avahi-daemon.service

reboot
download a few test source files from NAS...
Season 6 Wings... whatever...
No joy..
tried 'kodi-standalone'
still no joy..
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Remove kodi and related packages.

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sudo pacman -Ruu kodi-rpi-git kodi-rpi-git-dev kodi-rpi-git-eventclients kodi-rpi-git-tools-texturepacker

remove directory

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sudo rm -r /home/biffboffo/.kodi

change channels

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sudo pacman-mirrors --api --set-branch 'testing'
sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack 5 && sudo pacman -Syu[

reinstall kodi packages

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sudo pacman -S kodi-rpi-git kodi-rpi-git-dev kodi-rpi-git-eventclients kodi-rpi-git-tools-texturepacker

Note in the output requirement to add :

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[all]
include kodi.config.txt

to the /boot/config.txt file, and reboot.
Not sure if [all] is required or not. Limited understanding of code here...
no joy.. tried standalone.. no joy
sudo nano added [all] to /boot/config.txt
no joy...
remove git and go regular...

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sudo pacman -S  kodi-rpi kodi-rpi-dev kodi-rpi

Nothing works. Nada.
Moving onto the unstable branch to see what's available.