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Asked: 2016-08-17 09:33:25 +0800 CST

What is the relationship between Ubuntu's version of Kodi and its developer's version?

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I installed kodi from the standard repositories (Ubuntu 16.04 xenial):

# apt show kodi
Package: kodi
Version: 2:16.1~git20160424.1410-final-0wily

The web site for kodi states that the latest version is 16.1 "Jarvis".

What is the relationship between these two version numbers?

The install wiki mentions that one can use the team PPA but I do not know whether the versions diverge.

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    Both versions are 16.1 and are very close at least (if not exact version). The number 2 before 16.1 separated by : is called an epoch, and sometimes used to distinguish versioning of packages with two very diverse development track.

    Read more about this special number here Why do some packages have extra numbers on the front of their version string?

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