Downgrading from kodi 19 to 18

Hello Guys,

Due to the fact that I’m not happy with the kodi 19 I’m trying to find a way of downgrading back to the kodi 18.7 and also preserving all the other customizations done on my actual installation ( like samba , openvpn , syncthing and other packages )

Looking on some other discussions I found that I could install an older version of a specific packages :

sudo apt-get install rbp2-mediacenter-osmc=VERSION

Where rbp2-mediacenter-osmc is packages that contain kodi binary.

Looking on the osmc repository specific for the rbp2-mediacenter-osmc packages I found :

Index of /osmc/osmc/apt/pool/main/r/rbp2-mediacenter-osmc
Icon Name Last modified Size Description
[PARENTDIR] Parent Directory -
[ ] rbp2-mediacenter-osmc_18.7.1-2_armhf.deb 2020-06-03 21:13 91M
[ ] rbp2-mediacenter-osmc_19.0-1_all.deb 2020-12-01 23:06 2.0K
[ ] rbp2-mediacenter-osmc_19.1.0-14_armhf.deb 2021-07-15 09:17 145M
[ ] rbp2-mediacenter-osmc_19.1.0-17_armhf.deb 2021-09-15 07:14 146M

So I’ve tried to install the 18.7-2 version :

root@osmc:/home/osmc# apt-get install rbp2-mediacenter-osmc=18.7.1-2 -V
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Version ‘18.7.1-2’ for ‘rbp2-mediacenter-osmc’ was not found
root@osmc:/home/osmc#

Can I have a little help ? What I’m doing wrong ?

Thank you in advance

OSMC’s Kodi v18 has not been developed to work with the latest RPi kernel. You will have to install an image from last year, turn off upgrades, and copy across all your other stuff from your existing installation.