Install KODI 18.8 "Leia" On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / Linux Mint

In this Tutorial, I will tell you how to install the Latest Version of KODI 18.8 Leia on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 LTS/ and older versions, Li...

In this Tutorial, I will tell you how to install the Latest Version of KODI 18.8 Leia on Ubuntu 20.04 / 18.04 LTS/ and older versions, LinuxMint
Kodi Team released a new release 18.8 Leia. This version is full of bug fixes and no new feature added to it

About Kodi

Kodi formerly knows as XBMC an open-source and an award-winning media player available for Linux operating systems and also available for other operating systems Windows, macOS.

This allows you to play all popular audio & video formats like MP3, MP4, FLAC, WAV, WMA, OGG, AVI, MKV, MPEG-2, DIVX, XVID and etc.. 

It will run on Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows, macOS, and iOS operating systems, supporting both 64-bit and 32-bit

This also provides support for Viewing our favorite TV shows and Digital Photos too.

So What's New in this version?

• Fixes a severe security issue in gnutls
• Other significant library/compatibility updates
• Gets client/server on MariaDB 10.5.4 working for Android
• Fixes video database access for Ubuntu 20.4 and other distros using earlier libfmt versions (search and other filtering failed)
• Fixes subtitle handling from archives
• Fixes CDDB access
• Makes minor improvements to logging and memory reporting/display
• Fixes EDLs where skip points are at the very start of a file
• Contains code improvements to fix specific events, e.g. race conditions in the EPG or "pause" on end of streams on Android
• Enables alpha blending for the video player (Windows)
• Better handles specific exceptions (Android, mostly)

So How to install Kodi 18.8 on Ubuntu / LinuxMint ?

Kodi 18.8 Leia available in its official PPA for Ubuntu / LinuxMint

Step 1: Install the dependencies

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties pkg-config software-properties-common

Step 2: Add the Official PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

Step 3: update the Repository

sudo apt-get update

Step 4: Install Kodi 18.8 Leia

sudo apt-get install kodi