Slowly but surely, the Linux ecosystem is switching to packaged software bundles, like Snap and Flatpak.

Personal Package Archives, or PPAs, are software repositories intended for Ubuntu and derivative distros.

However, it will take time to get Flatpak up to speed with the old PPA system.

Nightlies and other pre-release builds won’t be provided through Flatpak at this time.

If you’ve never used Flatpak, open theFlatpak setup webpageand select your distro.

You’ll be guided through a quick installation process, which should only take a minute or two.

you might also read through theFlatpak documentationfor other basic commands, though it’s all pretty intuitive.

Kodi is working to update itsdocumentationand inform users of the discontinued PPA repository.