Kodi can also be installed on other distributions using third-party repositories, but these aren't officially supported by Kodi, so you may not get the best experience. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa Open the terminal (you can press Ctrl+Alt+T) and type in the following: sudo apt-get install software-properties-common Kodi 17.6 Krypton is included in Ubuntu repositories, which means it’s straightforward to install Kodi in Ubuntu or an Ubuntu-based distro. How to install Kodi 17.6 Krypton in Linux
As with the Windows version of Kodi, if you want to update your existing Kodi installation to Kodi 17.6 Krypton, simply install the new version over the old one. Kodi makes this easy by bringing up a window that lets you do this.