Installation error of Kodi: post-installation script fails

[joshi0531]

Installation error of Kodi: post-installation script fails

[leckye]

If kodi-repository-kodi was installed, then you had a very different issue and faced another error 😄. However, if on v8.22 Kodi was installed from the Debian repo along with kodi-repository-kodi, and with v8.23 the RPi repo is moved to Bookworm and then the kodi package from the RPi repo installed on top, this might indeed conflict, as both packages ship the same files. I guess you do not have the error message anymore, do you?

@MichaIng: No after i uninstalled kodi-repository-kodi, there is no error message anymore (and you are right, kodi was installed on Dietpi 8.22). Sorry i thought my issue was linked with joshi0531's one. Should i delete my messages to avoid any confusion?

[natevns08]

Strange, this looks like this ancient error which happened only with the 32-bit package on Buster: RPi-Distro/repo#153

Ah, indeed the missing directory is not even shipped anymore on Bookworm, as it has been obsoleted. So there is an update required now by the RPi maintainers.

Workaround:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d

Wanted to throw my name in the hat, this worked for me as well.

[MichaIng]

@freemanpt
Since the hardware acceleration issue is unrelated to the installation issue, can you please open a new issue about this?

I re-added the workaround for Bookworm to dietpi-software.

[MichaIng]

Strange, this looks like this ancient error which happened only with the 32-bit package on Buster: RPi-Distro/repo#153

Ah, indeed the missing directory is not even shipped anymore on Bookworm, as it has been obsoleted. So there is an update required now by the RPi maintainers.

Workaround:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d

[leckye]

another workaround i found yesterday was uninstall kodi-repository-kodi:
sudo apt remove kodi-repository-kodi

then retry the dietpi-software kodi script (with success).

[MichaIng]

If kodi-repository-kodi was installed, then you had a very different issue and faced another error 😄. However, if on v8.22 Kodi was installed from the Debian repo along with kodi-repository-kodi, and with v8.23 the RPi repo is moved to Bookworm and then the kodi package from the RPi repo installed on top, this might indeed conflict, as both packages ship the same files. I guess you do not have the error message anymore, do you?

[joshi0531]

it had been a cleaner installation because I wanted to set up kodi again and then came these errors that, the autoinstall has completely scraped. i have then made it with after install and have taken as help chatgpt. now everything walks, but that can still change, after which it looks but not yet.

[MichaIng]

@joshi0531
I was addressing leckye only 😉. Your (different) issue is a bug in the RPi Kodi package, which I linked and the workaround I posted above.

[MichaIng]

No problem. This commit should solve the package conflict, so Kodi can upgrade to the build from the RPi repo without file conflicts: 5365581

[freemanpt]

Hello, I dont want to hijack this thread but maybe this is somewhat related to my problem, I was getting this error on rpi 3b, and it was fixed with the workaround posted previously, but the problem that I have is that I can't seem to make Kodi install with hardware acceleration support because all my media files when playing use 100% of the CPU and that didnt happen with 19.4 and bullseye, I tried this using rpi3b 1.2V both with dietpi bookworm 64bit and dietpi bookworm armhf I doubt this bug is directly related to dietpi but this makes upgrading out of the question for now.