If you start from a fresh system, just run the apt-mark hold commands after installing the media framework and you should be fine enough. The install the media framework packages manually:Īnd finally mark the packages as hold, so apt upgrade won't try to update them:Īpt-mark hold kodi kodi-addon-dev kodi-bin kodi-data kodi-tools-texturepackerĪpt-mark hold ffmpeg libavutil56 libpostproc55 libswscale5 libavutil-dev libpostproc-dev libswresample3 libavresample4 libswscale-dev libavcodec58 libavcodec-dev libavresample-dev libavformat-dev libavfilter7 libavfilter-dev libavdevice58 libavdevice-dev
However, to try to get back the media framework situation, first uninstall the wrong armsoc driver: It is unclear to me why it tries to install packaged Kodi instead of keeping the one from media-framework, but probably I made some mess with versioning. I don't know why, but it tries to install armsoc-exynos as a dependency of Kodi. If apt is lamenting issues about armsoc, that's because of a previous package upgrade.
I just tried to install the lightdm-autologin-greeter and uninstall lightdm-gtk-greeter and, after a reboot, it looks like it works:Īpt install lightdm-autologin-greeter & apt remove lightdm-gtk-greeter Made some further investigation and it seems that lightdm-gtk-greeter is the great offender: the package in Ubuntu Focal seems to be broken for armhf architecture: