by laidlaws » Sep 24th, '22, 17:34
The difference of opinion here shows just how confusing the status of this add-on is. No, there is no single add-on distributed by Mageia as Ubuntu does (sometimes,) but most of the time, Kodi's own machinery will work. I was surprised that the add-on was on my USB stick when it wasn't available from the add-on repo.
Re: Being unable to uninstall: I believe that I could have uninstalled this add-on if I had uninstalled two other add-ons that depended on it. One of them was Crackle. I am not sure if I could have reinstalled this add-on without conflict, just by installing a ZIP file over the top of what was there. (Although that is basically what I did, I bypassed the normal machinery. What ZIP file? The add-on is on GIT, and I suppose that I could have downloaded it in ZIP format.
Anyway, I have raised the issue. Releasing Kodi with Python 3 to the public without giving developers a chance to upgrade their add-ons first, must have confused a lot of end users, many of whom are not techies. For such a popular program, I believe that the service should be better.