[General Topics] Astr4y4L:
Hi Everyone !!!

I am creating this as a purely educational guide to accomplish what everyone told me was not possible.

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This is for educational purposes ONLY,

Neither Myself , Xda, Nor Team_Astr4y4L

Nor ANY FILE HOSTS

are responsible for your actions PERIOD, in some places it's illegal to stream digitally copyrighted materials . WE do not condone Stealing in any FORM!!!

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So Just the other day my old laptop/linux-box/media-center Had a total meltdown. The Dual Core Died :crying:

Which Sucks , but hey it happens. So left with 3 board kids 2 board adults and a stinky-dog, and no good source of entertainment (Cut-Cable long ago) and only football on the t.v and the other-guys team too...

I said to Myself, "Well could be worse right ? I'll just swap the HDD over and run it on another box."

Well that would have been easy , except I was now at a shortage of 64bit P.C's

and the box I could use was 32 bits....

See 32 bit systems will boot fine on a board with 64bit processors, but 32bit processors make all kinds of weird beeps and noises and Refuse out-right to boot a 64bit system...

OK no problem, I'll install 32bit Ubuntu 16 on the box install Kodi on that AND THEN download my favorite plug-in again and install that. Back in business...

NOPE!!!

So it turns out for what-ever reason the devs of exodus abandoned it and moved on to a new plug-in called " Delorean " thats supposed to be all kinds of better too. OK KOOL!

NOPE.

followed all the on-line guides never could get it to let me just watch a movie.

or even install correctly. :eek:

So I ask around and i'm told that since the repo is gone now and everyone's switched over I'll never see the beloved Exodus again ... HOW SAD.

and some-one somewhere mentioned that if I still had the zip file from downloading the plugin I could install using Kodi's install from zip file option.

Well that got me thinking. I had always installed from the repo directly... so didn't have the zip file... So I'll ask around for the file.

NOPE !

No Body Had the Zip file.... I was very sad about it for like a second and then i realized , it's a zip file ...

this means all the parts of the plug-in just zipped in a zip file...

SO I set off to work getting the files,

I connected my old HDD to the computer here in the LAB and mounted it...

I dug through it until I found the Location of my add-ons and the files that make them up.

I zipped up the folders using 7zip but made sure not to encrypt them and that the file extension was ( .zip )

since I didn't have a handy thumb-drive on me , And the files were small in nature.

I just uploaded it to my file host....

Then I went back to the living room and Fired up the New media box.

opened the browser typed in

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and hit enter, There they were my zipped up files....

so I downloaded everything in that folder (took a time or two to make sure I got all needed plug-ins to make it work) and moved it all to a folder on my desktop that I named Kodi-Stuff.

I then opened up the Kodi app and made sure unknown Sources were enabled in settings

went to file manager and choose add source

then i used the [ Browse] button to open the window to navigate to the folder on my desktop named Kodi-Stuff added the folder as a source exited back to Kodi's home screen and chose add-on's and install and install from zip

there they were my zipped files... well I started at the bottom of the list and started installing them one by one ... [ gotta start from bottom of list and work up for it too work]

To My Delighted Surprise They installed , every one of them worked...

HAHA, so now I have my favorite plug-in back.

but had to think that the best thing to do next is

DISABLE AUTO-UPDATES for these plugins...

because the repo's do not exist anymore BUT some malicious Butt-Hole out there may OWN the URL that the plug-in uses to update,

-------BIG SECURITY RISK--------

SO to mitigate that danger I go to all plug-in's in Kodi's menu and choose the plug-in {Exodus and Exodus Repo} for example and look down for the update setting toggle and just turn it OFF !!!

So now fairly confident that no one except Big-Brother was watching me.

I set-up my proxies again on the new machine and

in about an hour of Krap later My Family an I were watching our favorite Movies and Shows again and Had a nice not-bored week-end !!!

This Method works to retrieve other plug-ins too...

Once again this was for educational purposes ONLY

My team and I have chosen to leave the files in the folder I used at my file host up because it's proven useful for loading the

plugins to everything from windows -Kodi to Android-Kodi and Linux-Kodi I'm sharing this here so that You can learn how to do this with your favorite plug-in's too!!

I truly hope this saves some-one else from dieing from Kodi-withdrawal or Just Plain Boredom .

This thread will be open to anyone with questions or comments about zipping files and installing them to Kodi.

I Ask if you Download My Files linked in this thread more than once or if You feel this Saved your life.

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We're H4Ck3Rz on a budget around our parts! LOL :cool:

THANKS,

Astr4y4L

Team_Astr4y4L