That’s it, your Kodi media center is ready to use in 15 minutes. Third, insert the USB stick into your home theater PC and boot the computer with the USB stick.Īfter the installer has been loaded, just select the quick installation option and when the installation is finished, reboot the computer. If you are using Windows, just run the application file (create_installstick) and choose the drive letter where your USB stick is located and the software will make a bootable USB stick for you. The downloaded file is compressed with bz2 and tar compression, so you’ll need to use a compression software such as 7zip to uncompress the file. Label the USB stick drive as OPENELEC, otherwise it will not work. Second, you’ll need to have a USB stick available. Usually the Generic build is the best choice. There are quite a few different builds available depending on your computer setup, so choose the one that best matches with your processor (Generic, Fusion, Intel).

Download OpenELECįirst, you’ll need to download OpenELEC from their website. Let’s have a look at the steps I did to install and customize the OpenELEC.

In fact, as OpenELEC advertises, I was able to install the complete operating system and media center in less than 15 minutes. The benefit of using OpenELEC instead of Windows is that you’ll get a fast booting HTPC that is instantly ready to be used as a media center. Kodi has been the favorite home theater PC software of advanced users for years, but thanks to Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center, or OpenELEC for short, it is easier than ever to install Kodi for Linux.

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